Walking around my favourite neighbourhoods
Remembering the time you stopped beside me
What a fluke, what a chance encounter
Looking for you in every black SUV
Now that I look, the universe won’t test me
You won’t appear
I’ll go unnoticed
My presence in this place is divorced from you
My heart no longer beats for you, but for this city alone
It might be a lie for now but someday soon it’ll be reality
Approval from someone so unkind is not required
Logic versus emotions
Yet I fight myself in the ring of life each day
Each minute of each hour I fight to remain hidden
In the darkness where I belong
Away from your judgement, resentment, and fear
Keep nimble. Keep quiet
Dancing on my toes, fists erect and ready to take myself out.
-no contact is harder when you’re across the continent
