Notes from the inside
This inner world;
We show each other these as best as we can,
Trying not to miss anything important
If I’m not paying attention,
You may slip.
I can’t catch you
If I don’t know
Where you’ve gone, inside.
We rescue ourselves and
This is understood,
But the fact that I want to
Have expressed that
Am invested in
Your retrieval from the rough edge of the landscape
I’ve only mapped with your clues
Over coffee
With a mutual friend
In time thinking of you
Is what holds you back like a balcony railing from
That void at the unimagined fringe of the plane you’ve traveled
Scarier still than our share world, for it is pure darkness
All my friends are lonely
Because what is inside is so vibrant
And outside there is no time
But what we can spare for each other
A blessing
A pity
