I evoked you. left. And just so. 
Few tears shed on the way there 
and back. 

The towering walls, ashen, 
ditto the ceiling 
but darker. 

it allows everything to fall through
I'm being told 
to close my eyes, 
shut my mouth—
the mouth in my head; 
the head my mouth will soon be missing. 

I took the landscape with me. 
I stood looking backwards. 
Snapshots came back blurred. 
Unnerved by a palace 
where inside is outside.

with and without.

with and without

One word 
You said "ditto."
That word shattered my heart
Because it took courage to say 
(I) love you