Best friends, forever.
Does the comma signify
A hesitation?
A regret?
Several regrets.
Memories that keep the words from touching
Ínstersecting
Bleeding into one another.
Even when the words forget,
The comma remembers
The space between us.
Sometimes it grows wider,
Sometimes it shrinks
But there’s always
Space-
Keeping me separate from you.
The period, at the end
Is forever set in stone?
But stone erodes
It crumbles
Just like we’ve started to.
I cant remember who I was before you.
If the period changed
To an exclamation
An expression of joy, without hesitation
Would forever become a reality?...
How long was forever for you?
It still goes on for me
But that comma, it pulls you back
Keeps us double spaced.
Punctuation has a memory
More than you remember me;
And maybe, one day,
We can backspace
Put a semicolon, just wait
For the days when I’ll be more
Than an empty space in your life.