Through my mother’s thinning hair,
I see her scalp,
and I realize that I don’t know her at all.
While I was sitting on my father’s lap he turned the cube over and over in my hands, intertwined with my fingers, my palms already marked with stress lines. They buried my life line. I told him how I could not line up the colors, the way they’re supposed to be much like I cannot line up when my parents eyes meet.
I cannot line up with your footsteps or the cracks in the pavement, you are far ahead of me in life, in thought.
I am trailing behind.
One night you ran up the hill to the park and left me behind in the darkness to stare at invisible trees, and all I could think was could you hear my voice in your head calling you back into alignment wit me.