those years of watching
at rooftop windows
breath paused and broken
no lethargy kept me there
quiet and perched one day, after a seagull storm,
I saw them unwinged and feather-frozen
– calm-seeming
yet, in time, masks do not hide the eyes of any
warm creature
But look long – eyes
no longer beady
and you’ll see it
They disappear and greedily sob
from outside, in
then when tears are dry inside
they show you life through their eyes
an eternity we are together on rooftops
you and I
we do not waste a single moment –
if the moon hides from me
I know it’s not gone away
and whatever it is I lack, I will love