Reflection

On the inside looking out

from the outside looking in

There is loneliness on each side of this reflection

Always separate, uncommon experiences

Traumas of then and now

Secrets as if they never existed

Less than nothing, less than zero

Open my chest, the beginning of an exhale

the murmuration of starlings turns everything black

and shades of grey

and the sky into the color of 3 AM

Break open my ribcage and the monarchs

turn the evergreens into a desert sunset

Scoop out my heart to release the scents of you

The senses of you

buried deep within me

in the shape of Ether

You, on the outside looking in

from the inside looking out

There is endlessness on each side of this reflection