NEVER SAID FOREVER

We worked for it our entire lives

Practicing and Practicing

Over and over

Keeping in mind

Practice makes Perfect

We practiced for the opening night

We practiced for a show that sold no tickets

Tickets printed in invisible ink

We became actors of a new page

Within a new book

Filled with old stories

We hung on parentheses smiles

We Danced to metaphorical orchestras

Heartbeats, the bass line

Too irregular

We will never escape our own heart murmurs

So we let it live

And we danced to a silent musical

A musical played by air like instruments

We converted to oxygen like a new religion

And I’d have to say in realization

that

I never said

We’d go on forever