6. PARALLEL DAMAGE

I moved away to save us.

You moved away to disappear.

I walk on my side of the street.

I watch you walk through the dust and heat.

We are parallel

damage.

I never learned to stay.

You never learned to leave.

These separate rooms share one single

wall.

I write the words that I cannot recall.

I write the messages I never send.

We wake

at the exact same

hour in the end.

We are

parallel damage.

I never learned to stay.

You never learned to leave.

Distance will keep us from burning down.

Your silence only serves to make me drown.

Safe on opposite sides of the road.

Carrying the same heavy broken load.

Different roads. The same collision.

We are

parallel damage.

I never learned to stay.

You never learned to leave.

We are parallel damage.

Parallel damage.