Sometimes the attraction
Was solely cerebral
But in the abstraction
Made love to the peaceful
And though I felt evil
Still using such beauty
For personal ends
There was you and me
Truly
As more than just friends
But to look upon you
Through the mind-bending lens
As the conscious
Apart from emotion
Ascends
With you staring right back
Synchronized
In my eyes
And perhaps even far beyond
What it disguised
Was the moment I thought
Only futures could hold
What the two of us
Here in the now
Had foretold
Growing old
Not appealing
No fantasy lands
Could be made to resemble
It held in our hands
When fingertips
Inches away
Stayed astray
And it faded to everything
I couldn’t say
Though you know I have written it
Infinite
Times
I envision,
Revisit it
Lost in these rhymes
And if I can’t return
To unlearn
Grave mistakes
I will take them into
The last one
I awake