Alone

No Love, 

We are not alone, not alone, not alone, 

Nor ever have been

Not on the rooftops, between treetops and the arching dome

Where the pink tinge, in a ring around

Made us feel grand, and bold, and vulnerable

Nor when snowflakes fell, white on my hood, my head, 

My nose, and his…

We are not alone, in the familiar streets,

All full of sounds, or bare, where all there is 

Is feet --   the simple sound and sight 

of walking, and of thinking thoughts.

Not on the road, all searching restless,

Never

And when a word will pass unnoticed,

When another shoots and misses,

And the fiber that we try to build our love with frays

Or fails

And wishes, 

Lost, unsaid, unspoken, fade away… 

There is an Always

And it peeks in corners, cracks in broken mirrors

Something makes a walker stop

And turn to look behind her

Stop, a frozen second, just to stay

And maybe, many, never noticed

Until after, ever; ever after;

But we are not alone, Lord, no, 

Not ever alone, nor ever were

I am here, now. We

Are here, with never just ourselves to know it

Know us

Deep in the fibers of our Intimate