As It Was

I've finished mourning

In my memories you will always

Catch the sword as the music crests

And, gather the cars and warm the room

With long long looping wires that tether

Me, to a moment of lost papers returned 

You'll always be on the roof

Me, nervous you'll fall, albeit you are

Invincible and Dynamic. Eternal

We built a chair with no instructions 

And told the bourgeoisie to go home

I said the thing and blazed red waiting your response

I'll still hear your hundreds of stories.

Doctor, sailor, lawyer, secretary, and spy

I'll hear your rumors, the incriminating 

Screen snips of the gossip, the tea spilled

Like the water from broken pipes on 3rd

You'll be traveling. The south of Mexico

And tour of all the ballpark

They'll be quirky earrings with black cats

Enamel pins and memes, shared like jail house smokes. There will be a crack of lacrosse sticks, a sound I've never heard but remember through you.

I've finished mourning

The space around gets bigger, the loss

Stays the same; gnawing, dull, toxic

When Isolated, it loses its bite and

Toothless, you revert to better memories

And, the sobering dawn that we are

Each other's history