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yearning
somewhere in the ruckus of the train car
through the crowds and stained floors
i must have gotten tangled
the strings of my conscience
knotted in the webs of remembrance
slowly pulling me back into the station
you trudge forth like a soldier
one with no anchor to humanity
slipping from the embrace of my eyes
fretting not to look back
engulfed by the distant cars and affluent luggage
i, too, was swallowed whole
but by the memories which deprive our shoulders bliss
and not the restorative cure of tomorrow
our childhood smothers my unconscious
drowning me until i am drunk on each sip of laughter
i bury myself with the false recollections of you
as the present sways forward without us
yet i come to
torn and scarred from nostalgia’s control
the foreignness of your name seizes the tip of my tongue
and i stumble and tremble after you
i grasp the tenderness of your wrist
the very flesh that could heal my soul
as the words cascade from my mouth like freed doves
but i cannot hear them over the sound of your presence–
so large, i can’t bear to drink it all in
but the train steers forward beside the clouds
and now you ask who i am
as if i have not relived our star-crossed beginning
a thousand times over.
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