It's a reference
point, one where
people fall in love,
get married, have
children of their
own, a cycle so
known it's as if
its seed has been
sewn into our
souls, a seed that
is reluctantly teased
in me like a fly in the
background that
inches further away;
small leaps at first
then bigger over
streets, cities, countries,
I shout to it but no