Certainty of Smoke

I came here today

For the second time

Everything is consuming

I’m alone with only you around me.

I see our memories hung up

Ones only we can share

Our wholeness is undisputable

Yet no one would know.

It feels like you are with me, like you are me

And I envisage you feel the same

Not dead in actuality

Only until our next words of detachment.

I will not see you.

Not yet.

The tears will stay invisible on my casing

On your shirt

Staining the mark of destruction

The one perfect thing the earth has to offer

Taken.

The unbearable yearn for your touch,

Your smell,

Yet

The need to stay away.

If I get to close I might burn.

My progression the embers,

My course now following the smoke

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Of where it would be taken to next.

One thing is definite, though,

As the air moves unknown

I will gravitate to the ceiling

Into the arms of my home.