different directions

you and I

                        two of a kind

once in step

                        now dance different tangos

you and I

                        now drift in

other directions

                        trying to get

to the same place

                        from opposite paths

- Inspired by the poetry line: "We go in different directions down the imperturbable street" - Gwendolyn Brook's An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire.

unattainable

I dreamt I was the moon

you were the stars

I chased across night skies

you were the fantasy

I slip into each night

I was the pauper yearning

for your touch

but like the galaxies you

were unreachable to my hands

forever eluding my chases

then one night I dreamt

I was the sun, you was the sea

that I shined upon each sunrise

and kissed softly at each sunset

this too was just an illusion

of my mind, for you will

always be that unattainable star

- This poem was inspired by the line "I dreamt I was the moon" in the poem entitled "Full Moon" by Alice Oswald.  You may read the full poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49193/full-moon-56d22b0c02d2e

far away

I was trying to find my way

back to you or at least back

to something slightly familiar

when far away an interrupted cry

distracted me from making

the same mistakes twice

so I followed that far away

sound and have had no regrets

- Inspired by the line "When far away an interrupted cry" from the poem Acquainted with the Night   by Robert Frost.