06.26.03 - 12:39 pm
i am not permanent.

Telepathy is
the strongest between
bonded pairs.

- "Telepathy Caught on Camera", FT171:37

I have kept, for all this
time, letters you sent
four years ago, folded
carefully
and hidden in
a blue shoebox in the top
of my closet.

You wanted
me to be your Ophelia, tragic and pale
like the Waterhouse print on your
wall.

I kept you in a box with your
words.

And perhaps someday we will
escape these prisons that keep
us here, and meet
while
driving along a stretch
of deserted highway.

You have always known everything
that was real and important.
And I have always known the same
about you,
even when you did not.

And I wonder whether you're simply
a reflection of me, as if
in a carnival mirror; or perhaps
you are part of
a delusion I've been having
for years now.

Perhaps that is why
I cling to your old letters
like life rafts. They
are proof of your existence
outside my head.




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This particular piece goes out to my closest friend (after Marko, of course), Adam, who won't read it, and I'd be insanely pissed at him if he did. He's psychic, you know.

.drink up baby, look at the stars. // .i'll kiss you again, between the bars.