When the missing you
Is going beyond
Any hormones, delusional, fantastical,
Fictional
Imagination
Manifestation —
And yet, with certainty —
I know what I know.
I know what we promised.
So I wait.
And I wait.
And I scroll and I see you,
In your costumes,
From far, far away.
I can see but I can’t touch.
You can read but you can’t respond.
And it’s happening both ways.
I know.
I know you’re following
My socials too — click, click,
Click.
I just post random shit even
My coworkers from thirty
Years ago get to view.
The silence in my heart
Once I asked to breathe; I had
To smell the absence of you.
Curtains drawn.
Silence in the night.
Neighbours with their YouTube
Low hums and some birds
Outside.
You’re my Phantom.
Lurking in this Love.
Magnetic.
Unwavering.
Do I want a baby? Yes. But only
If the timing is right,
With You.

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