finished endings

i hope you get the ending

someone must hear all the silences
they rise out of us like steam on hot days
and just hiss on the cold ones
but not like a reptile, mostly like the crack of release
planes taking off and turning down
my mind shuts preventing what i think about thinking:

this is going to be beautiful.

a closet kept romance with
falcons beating at the door
fingers crossed eyes crossed beaks steadied
and we're lost quickly
decoding unlocking shifting
the pattern the wood grain makes when i tilt my head this way
the eyes you shut, the lids you saw with
and then you, with a handful of words--only endings
you shrugged
as i tossed you an -ed.

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[lark]

someone must hear all the silences
This is a beautiful line. There's more to it. Someone out there, somewhere, somehow... must hear these things that we can't say, mumble, mutter. Then: thinking about beauty. Romance.
Fingers crossed--superstitions. Eyes crossed--silly, childish things. Beaks steadied--ready to attack.

-ed. Past-tense. Ending... Gone... And the other person just shrugs. It's bound to happen. Bound to leave. Bound to end, and on and on.

There are insides to this. Guts and soul and heart--that sort of thing.