oh come no closer for you will not understand why i dance
with my eyes closed & my body responding to the rhythm
of summer rain. You do not understand because you have a secured
roof over your head. All of your advances are aimed at surfaces,
you lost before you even begin, forever banned / from my solitude.
We do not speak. Our mouths are pried open
with hollow words sputtered out in desperation, while the
chilled room laughs at us, even the cobwebs. I am
also at fault. I can't string my thoughts with links secure,
and you are lovely for thinking my gibberish rhymes like a song.

I sprint, I run, I fall, and run again. my dusty&bruised knees
supporting dusty&bloodied hands in full swing propelled
by the motion, forward. If I don't hurry I'll forget
the confusion, the chaos, the mess I made / in my head
But it's getting so hard to remember.
& it hurts to take a breath.

I am the absence and you are just beginning
don't lose sight or sidetrack. Keep to your path.