between walls and streets
water and sand
i touch you here
between years of our currents
these waves, how they ride
i taste you in theory
the theory of us
two inside this
like water in cracks
how we slip
how you slide
how i turn your hands
up toward me
i feel you
the salt of your skin
the quiet heat of your sweat
we move in the wind
i speak your name in your ear
we make moments on pavement
swaying into something
that doesn’t ask to last
i could leave you here
where we only ever meet
in passing feeling
where the wind touches your skin
before i do
the way we melt into
half spoken things
the rasp of your tongue
the pull in my wrists
your fingers finding mine
like they knew before i did
and i take you
to leave you
to feel you
to reach and not hold
we build places from nothing
we press sweetness into wounds
we ruin what we touch
just to prove it was there
and i hold
what i can’t keep
because i know
things end
even while they’re happening
so i say your name
because it means something
like i would like it to stay
i leave you here
not beside me
but beside everything
and i carry you
in shape of this
do you realize this
i do
but can you