Cobblestones are burning underneath the street lights
They say
We’re walking with too much friction
We need to be cool
The sky is choking clouds
And making faces at me
Stop pretending to be and
Just be
We’ve already seen who you can be
Now, just be you

As if trying to make more space for something
The traffic rearranges itself
The streets have no idea what merging is
And the birds have no idea
That fire sirens aren’t other
Really boisterous birds

I told you there was something here
And laughing you twirled sunlight around your finger
You painted the air with presence
I still have trouble breathing
If you put your ear against my chest
You can hear the ocean in my lungs
Rising to the pull of your moonlight skin
Your
Gravity

You laugh at me
When I tell you nice things
You can’t take me seriously
That’s why I do

I get so lost sometimes
I almost know where I am again
You catch me in your Rubik-kaleidoscopic eyes
And whisper under your breath
This is just the beginning
Even if it’s the end of something else

I wanted you to know
It wasn’t always this beautiful

You helped me notice

Flocks of crayon colored static drips from stereo speakers
From beings caught between frequencies
Of broadcasted solitude in-between radio stations
A daydream is stuck in your head
As you hum a song
No one has ever heard
Where did you learn to bend notes so beautifully?
You laugh at me again
Not taking me seriously
Honestly
We must have traveled here in a pensive hourglass
The sand spinning like a halcyon tornado in our sleep
Saying
Take your time
You deserve it

I forget things easily

so be patient with me, please
Because in this place, you hold
All collective epiphanies

I know I’m going to wake soon

I close my eyes and wait for eternal to pass
I can smell rain
As each moment echoes off our breath like reverb
All six billion hearts beat at once and everything stops
I feel your hand close around mine
I hear you breathe to say something
I open my eyes
And everything
Stops