So Did I

Secrets would be the end of us, as they almost always are to everything that exists in pairs--

dividing

detaching

striking with great resentment and jealousy

What seemed like the deluge of everything infamous

but it stopped being fun to have the flashlight in the woods when you weren't there to find me

to pin it to the ground

you were never the arbiter

it was just that everything was on impact

Complacency flooded us both--

but it was all at different speeds

and backward

and forwards

and it didn't mean what it meant on a Friday

Shattered glass was the harbinger of the great divide

everywhere

every night

you changed

and our hands weren't the puzzle pieces they used to be

but then again--