Dear you,
Do you remember a time when we existed?
What are we to do
with gaps and tongue twists in memory
Say it
Fast enough
Maybe you’ll recall
When time made its exit and reverse
The glass dropped on the ground
and kept dropping
The music blaring
and blazed a chemical trail.
I look to what we were
searching for—
my order in anger
my morality in rejection
We abandoned body
failing a search
Not for true love but life
Now we’re tapping the meter
and my five is always
your two, uneven.
The clock used for keeping us in time is boxed
And I removed the batteries.
You weren’t running in time,
keeping us up anymore.
When we were little
all night
we’d watch digital numbers turn
What kept us up?
And where did you find so many hours.
Yet now
Hands stiff unless finding ways to fidget
When you cram the gaps with
research facts
Like you don’t let us in to memory.
How will we enter and return to life?
When will the hands catch up.