I look behind me & you vanished all too soon, leaving me to find the proper branch to spin up a cocoon & wait for something magnificent to happen I think you are magnificent but I know I shouldn’t so I’d better not & I’m sorry the sun burns your skin but your hands burn mine & every time I look behind me you’re always gone & if I look beside me you’re holding someone’s hand but it’s never mine & though I understand love dies sometimes it goes on, hopelessly inside someone like me broken and battered and sanguine still someone who anticipates her empty heart to be filled & I keep looking behind me as if you’ve just slowed down to tie your shoe but I never pay attention to what’s coming ahead & crash into cars and walls instead