You and I

are a dance of distances

We hide behind the shadows,

Occasionally cloaked in darkness,

but sometimes we surface to the light.

And there I see you,

and there you see me,

and while we gaze at each other

with these eyes

that have been diluted with

the potent touch of time,

I feel the smallest tendril

touch my beating heart.

The emotion left from the past we had.

Because, in my eyes

you never were a stranger.

How could a stranger have kept my heart?

The affections float like motes,

Swimming around our eyes,

But after a small moment

Of those memories, the pain,

We smile our strangers’ smiles

and drift back to the dark.