Tag: poetry

the oxygen is thin
and getting thinner
at this great height

we drift, together
but apart from everything else
and maybe from each other, too

–the earth is a mirror,
you say,
–look how from here the lights
the lights from all the cities
all those billions with their candles
and torches
and upturned hopeful eyes
look how they look like stars

i would laugh if there weren’t
so little air
and i manage to gasp out
as the tank reads zero
and your gloved hand slips from mine
–as above, so below

these steps between us
might as well be nautical miles

too many to measure

if we were to each hold an end
of a measuring tape
every wave would stretch the
tape between us to breaking

the distance explodes

they say that every piece
of the universe races away
at an increasing rate
from every other piece

just so

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This post is inspired by a writing prompt challenge from amandatorroni and tylerkentwhite on Instagram, in particular, this post.

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