WHAT LIES BETWEEN US

 My name means "star of the sea" in a language we both don't know, while your's mean "the God of love" in a language we both know 

There are dangling flames between us which burn memories effectively like a cursed angel

There is the numbness of the teeth I left on a dentist's office because of my swallowing gums 

There is muteness of a girl with no tongue we read about in Atwood's Booker prize winning novel 

There is the brightness of sunbathed skin in our bed , your curls perfect and soft 

There is a song by our hallucinated neighbors about the land he had to left behind 

There are passive metaphors of love under our feets, which we forgot to scrub away 

There is a half burnt lungs of lullaby we moulded for a non existent future 

There is cemented fear in our bones making no it hard to move closer 

There are words we abandoned in the letters we put on the public dust bin

There are colour blinded pills we used to swallow at three am to get some sleep 

There are locked cries we both carry in our throats with a post -to-note "never open "

There are shadowy kisses we erase under ashy moon and starless skies 

There are smiles in width of a bandage, dirty with dust and damp of tears 

There are scratches of our names in the walks of an abandoned alley, hidden under blue orchids

There is a vintage gun loaded with two bullets, each for my eyes to stop seeing you

There is us 

Two orphans 

Not by birth 

But by life .

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