Like Poles Repel

Together, we're a shipwreck.

the two pieces of a magnet once whole.

won't ever reconcile the same

because they've formed distinct poles.

When you drop that rogue exterior

and your eyes soften at dawn.

you'll hear a lullaby,

but the voice will be someone else’s.

mine’s holding grudges.

I'm drifting away

in search of a place called home

having dug the shape and form

Out of you.

‘where I couldn't find an abode.

Revelations are like morning newspapers

I collect them only to leave them at the table

for you to read while you sip

your cup of tea;

which, is anything but me.

It is only when you leave

that | tiptoe towards your empty

cup to read the leaves;

to touch the crockery my fingers

exactly where yours touched it

You write letters to me.

addressing them to anonymous.

identities

only to crawl back into bed

with pocket full of empty envelopes

to be stuffed inside me.

My wrist is like the neck of a 

mockingbird. 

which you keep snapping;

a heart like that of yours

is worn at the sleeve

and it keeps breaking loose.

Together, we're shipwreck, 

the two pieces of magnet

once whole,

won't ever reconcile the same

So be the willful dole.