This casual “hey,” is too heavy for me, to hold with one hand. A dense weight pressing down. Invisible,

A rich start in the city, same old daughter, just a touch less pretty. You play your games with me, your version of hide and seek.

blueness, bluer than you or me blues in the morning in the evening

I should live by the sea. Silence this noise. I should like to be still, to quiet my temper, to breathe.

I must learn to be gentle –contempt eye rolling mockery. I love you for how you drink two gallons

I do not pray. I believe in this hum. The static between fingertips. How the sadness

There are pieces of the sun fragmented in all of us.

To me, we are both lonely. I sit comfortably with silence. Let it braid itself into

Sundays were never mine, in design or desire. They are half-warm, half-true. And I never learnt to play.

I often try to carry this solace, and just like when we take ourselves off when we are sad,

I belong elsewhere— Do not tempt me.

It’s really is a most foolish belief, an assurance of regret even. To think that we will one day

She is the sun, —Unforgivingly, Achingly bright. To linger is to blister and blind.

They say following the sun is truly a journey of conviction. A stead-fast walk— where this warmth resides.

I am almost someone, you were waiting for. I seek forgiveness hoping you may recall what I have long since forgotten.