Banish the Between

 

Banish the Between

(“May he give you what your heart wishes for. May he make all your plans succeed.” Psalm 20:4)

Banish the between us,
vanish the spaces that remain.
Drop the divide, cried and stopped
where the arms uncrossed, where the open
revolved like dance, like love.

Revive the among us,
survive the pauses, fog and rain.
Stop the collide, tried and started
where the brains defrost, where the daylight
snickered like French bread, like love.

In you (closer than far) more hearts beat
fully
than repainted in a day. In us (slower than near)
more mirrors
fully
refund colors and gray.

I’ll take a dozen new friends please,
but just like the old friends who have walked through
the breezeways to class,
sat on trampled grass,
asked question after question like a dreidel,
and never fatally ended our conversations
or lost them in the canopy of trees that preceded

Everything we thought we knew.