Five in ten thousand

Rigil Kentuarus 

Five years of distance,

five years of post office mistakes,

five years of undelivered affection.

Come the final hours

to the end of the world,

I'll wish we could sit outside and read

the universe on each other's palms

as we used to when we were young.

Tsih

I followed the spark in your eyes

and spiral danced around you like a beetle

before losing them for the dark night.

We learned each other's pitch

by watching words

come to light in the blackness

and used our hands to protect them

as if they were fireflies.

El Nath

A list of ways in which love is concrete:

in paper folded  boats,

in balloon elephants,

in black tea when I'm sick,

in a tangible invented world,

in the books we read,

in the waiting for Godot,

in Magritte.

Girtab

No one else finds me awake

after the 2 a.m. train,

I am not there for anyone else.

 I'm carried into my dreams

 by a whistle,

gradually fading in the separation,

sure to be soon lost in the distance
when you don't come.

Mirfak

You trigger me to

stare at my own spirit.

You wrap me 

in different strengths.

I show you the roof of my mouth

and am posed with your vast rib cage -

who would have thought 

of  a better hiding place?

(Shared with the Imaginary Garden)