Today

Both of us a shifting infinity of confusion in constant collusion, fusing together the precise moment we're severed;

there's a small space between your face & mine when we kiss…

& when we speak invisible thoughts distort & twist our words, so that we'll never completely know the other & love will never help us escape from the confines of our minds:

we will always be ultimately

alone.

But despite it all, despite the sleepless nights born of petty fights & the blood-shot eyes too tired to cry any more; regardless of every moment we feel slipping away, hopelessly lost…

even though we know it can be so fucking ugly sometimes, nothing can change the fact that there's such incredible purity to the beauty of this:

today I woke earlier than usual, with nowhere to be & nothing to do but lay down next to you, deep in animal heat, listening to the persistent rhythm of our synchronised breathing…