Fifteen years ago, we were like this:
We held hands slowly on our way to the sunken movie theater
and I watched you through fractions of light,
thinking there is nothing more our patch of love could teach us now.
We were inseparable, bound likes veins under the skin.
The undoing comes quietly: the handholding ebbs,
we bounce like endless particles without a solution.
And we go round and round, until a child
spins our fragments into a perfect rose-gold circle.
Yet, the deep wounds are waiting to speak misery.
Now, we seal our regret into long-knotted memories.
You sit at the kitchen table for two
and I honk the horn from the side of the road,
waiting for our son to appear.
I imagine letting go of the familiar things,
collecting the missing pieces which have been found.