660million Km3

On the night we collided

We were skyscrapers

Then paper planes

Then

Crumpled notes passed between lovers in study hall

we learned to share new space

learned to hold my body still

Under

Above

Beside

you

On the first night I slept in your arms

My whole skeleton was quiet

Wishing not to wake the sense from your skin

Maybe you’ll let me stay

If I cover my voice with the darkness

Maybe you’ll forget

I'm not him

And pull me close

At midnight

You did

Four days later I was back in my own bed

Struck by a silence so strong

It filled my room like a song

Flinging secrets to the ceiling

Old paper plane models

You might have found it amusing

The second night you slept in his arms

Again

I found myself waking with a scream

I called out your name

But you were no one close

A million breaths away from my body

No wind to carry your scent to me

Tonight

We are laying in our mattress

In the center of the pacific ocean

We are a whole sea of islands

Together

Clothed and parted

660 mil km3 of water

salt separating skin

for the first time

in months

we are two bodies

diverted

tides pulled

in opposite directions

I am soaked in the salt of mistakes

And you

Are brown skin

Covered in cloth

Too cold

To be touched