You are like a breath of fresh icy
Cold air
It was like for a moment
Stepping into another time
Where the wind blew a little bit harder
Green screen text screens vibrated at me
Longer
And it was you I was so feverishly
So haphazardly had
Wanted to love.

I had not known a painful love
I wanted to try my hand at it
Texting in all lowercase
Quickly, bouncing the ball
Back so high into the sky
I watched it and I watched it
Soar, fly past the clouds
The sun, the moon
Beyond galaxies
Never to return.

I loved you from a distance
Because that is all you would allow
And I wrote about it in a letter
My cinematic brain feels intrigued
To potentially
Share
For me
For me.

We learned well
I learned well
There is no we here
Not for you and I
There never really was
And for that I am grateful
And for that I can take the knowing
That I did in fact
Leave a prism behind
A prism you didn't have the capacity to accept

And thank heavens.