We met winter 2009
but We knew of Each Other
long before
I let the years out
and after that
We became acquainted during
new sleepless nights
when You would whisper
my greatest fears and doubts
into my ready willing heart
Nobody knew You really
least of all i who
You knew best
and hated most
because i let you be
eventually You burnt away
all my dead wood and
i believed i was stronger for it
but there was nothing to defend from
You were already here
and when i
with the help of Many Others
realized you could
not be killed but
could be locked away
made quiet
I managed to
for a time
I forgot you were lost
and after years of you
raving through the now empty
barren
corridors I locked you in
You found a way back out and
I didn’t expect you there
on the fourth of july
when We laid in bed and
listened to illegal fire works
and You
shouting now
told Me
solutions to problems I
didn’t know I had yet
insisting of course that
Your way was the only one
then six days later
You were stronger than ever
strength born out of validation
but
so was I
strength born out of necessity
and fear
so we dragged Each Other slow
You cast me into that Dark Space Low
where You and I always talk
and I pushed you
with all my fury and regret
into a New Space
of Self reflection and
backward Certainty
Short Stories 