we can go together

harbor my hollowed heart 

take my hand and keep it 

through the moments of our 

misfortune 

can our love carry

the cause?

privy to your pain–

i tread carefully 

wading in your sorrows

i will carry you to shore

for better or for worse 

and with every stitch

i will mend your aching soul 

hemming your heart 

until it is whole once more – 

would you do the same for me

or is that selfish to say?

for doubt is a powerful potion –  

heavy is the mind that thinks only of tomorrow 

weighted are the thoughts tied only to the storm 

yet we exist in the eye 

in tandem is this blessed union

let the winds bellow

let our reflections hold true

and seal our fate in solidarity

we can go together.

beneath every comforter you own,

we lie entangled in a fragile embrace,

yet only your silhouette emerges 

a ghost of the warmth i once knew.

i savor the dying embers of your heat,

tracing every delicate curve

with trembling fingertips,

as if each contour were etched from my own longing.

our eyes do not meet,

and our lips do not touch.

i call out your name

and silence screams back,

a playful echo of our unspoken grief.

to crave you

so completely, so painfully

in this fleeting moment

is my undoing.

to want you as you are

in this moment

is truly despicable on my part.

how can you provide

what you lack?

how can you ever offer

what remains so heartbreakingly absent?

as we lie here, stiff and unwilling,

i am reminded of the connection 

between beast and machine.

this is not the man i know.

sure you are still mine,

for a brief moment

we are strangers

and that excites me.