"Whoever" by Rudy Francisco

If you awake

and you find yourself

tucked into the corner morning

and your smile has too many thorns

and loneliness is a rumor your thoughts

are spreading about your bones.

If it’s raining, if it’s cloudy, if it’s not.

If you have the unshakable urge

to reach out for something

and have no idea what it is.

Maybe I am somewhere

doing the exact same thing.

Maybe you left the bookstore

right before I got there.

Maybe you were 2 cars

behind me at the stoplight.

Maybe I got off the train

before you got on.  

Maybe I transferred

to a school that you just left.

Maybe I moved into a house

next door to the house you moved out of.

Maybe we were both in an elevator

on opposites sides of the same building.

Maybe I’ve been 3 steps

behind you my whole life.

Maybe we are just 2 planets

in the same solar system

hoping to find something in this galaxy

that will look at our eyes like they’ve

never seen 2 of them on the same face

and think maybe we are magic.

Someone who will hear the forever in our laugh

Someone who will see beautiful in our mistakes

Dear whoever you are,

On the day we finally meet

I imagine, there will be

static electricity  in your voice.

Your name will be the sheet music

to a song I’ve been trying to play by ear

and we will fall into each other

like 2 stars that are tired of the sky. 

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