Lover,

Swollen thoughts

Early morning pupils dialating

Asking, "why can I not sleep?"

Noon comes and we are back to being

Strangers in a time of

Inconvinance staining every

Letter of every word I write bleeding through my pen until it is

Empty and all the paper is used so there is no more second life in

Transcending and pretending I and we are all the things we are not

Tempting to give up

Only to realize, I love you too much

5:43pm Somwhere just off the coast

I want to be the one you call.

anything at all.

because I think I could say something right

maybe.

Let me be what you need
I can light your cigarette


I can turn off all the lights inside
and give you all the stars
that reflect to us days we thought we lost as children

before I knew your name
or what darkness called you

Let you, let me

be here

because

somewhere in the pacific ocean

I named you
moon