The Lucid Lid

Maybe it's true that I don't need you and you don't need me.

Yes, it's true---

and I felt this when my knees weren't quite what I imagined them to be at this time of night

You offered me a hand up and I waved it away,

I waved it all away because it was just easier that way,

wasn't it---

I think, some day, in another life, you liked my long hair,

and you didn't get mad when it fell in your face---

You told me it was okay

and that it meant we belonged to each other

that maybe we didn't belong

but we belonged to each other

And you stopped being here

and here

and returned to me

back here

and you held my hand

not because I needed you to

but because I needed you to

But that was another life,

and we only live once,

or so they say---

yes, they say---

such is the balanced imbalance here