Fireworks

We’re under the same sky
I can hear the fireworks

Each, a gunshot, shakes me -
You sit, cramped over desk,
No light
No light

Sky’s dark, falsely lit,
Fireworks in the sky

Are these the same fireworks in your eyes?
When you hold me,
Suspend me,

You sit, fixed, a point in time,
Your eyes, fireworks
Illuminate grey.
Your eyes, fireworks,
Stare into the night –

That same night that I fall from
Do not belong
Never belong

Trickling raindrops fall, suspend, then fall once more,
A drop upon the night sky
No light,
No light.

–
first poem i’ve written since 2010.