A shadow in the evening light.
Every road another name.
An empty chair.
As though you’d only stepped away.
A room beyond the years.
Where time no longer knocked
Your tender lips
The only language left between us
You looked at me.
As though the world
Had finally learned
To let us in.
Beyond the border.
A journey home that never was.
Even our names forgot us.
Mirrors opened one by one.
Onto lives we almost lived.
Reality
Looked away
The clock forgot the hour.
Your hand still rested in mine.
Nothing needed words.
Everything remained
For one impossible moment.
The light began
To leave your face.
I watched you.
Become a memory.
I tried to hold the morning still.
But dawn
Has never learned
Mercy.
The room remained
You didn’t
Beyond the border.
We almost found our home.
The world remembered nothing.
Not even why
We came.
The mirrors slowly closed again.
One by one.
Leaving only
The empty room.
We crossed a border.
No one followed.
Morning found the room.
Only the light
Came back.
Love borrows time.
Dreams return it.
When I reached for you.
The room was still there.
You weren’t.