Thursday, January 11, 2018

Words like Fingerprints

Our words, like fingerprints, press against the air between us.
Each unique, but somehow made for one another.
Secrets and memories reach through time and space, holding us together.
Two strangers each looking and finding a mirror in the other.
Despite the distance, the air between us is heavy.
Full of late night conversations we never meant to have.
Weighed down by secrets slipping out of sleepy mouths.
"I know you" both hearts seem to say.
"I have seen what you have seen.  I have ached how you now ache."
At twilight, and at dawn, the hearts break over the space between them.
We promise them, soon, and then we delay.
Everyday making them beat more in sync and yet,
Everyday putting a few more steps between them.

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