Moira Smiley

I just had a stranger give me everything in a single glance.
We did a one step dance, and stumbled on.
Between two blinks a lifetime shouted out its name
in a single blast — first breath to the last, and we were gone.
And I walk on because he asked me to
And I kneel down where the flickering lights of the city
rise up on the water
And I look up because I feel too much.
Am I heavy or am I weightless? Am I burdened, am I blessed
with that moment burning heavy in my chest?
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In the air between us there’s a trembling
It’s an honesty — it’s an injury we’ve known
too long.
Stranger, could you hold me in
your tenderness?
We can travel light in some gentle night
where we belong.
—Moira Smiley