Dwellers

If not the dwellers

of each other's hearts, 

we were yet tenants

of the selfsame town 

and if we ever happened 

to have caught a glimpse

of one another

would we swallow back 

the syllables of the names 

wishing to roll off our tongues 

or half whisper 

the unmentioned goodbyes

into the air letting them 

carve out an end as desired

for we were too miserable

to conclude what we couldn't

even commence.