confirmation

Pray, Discipline, that you never see me again.

count your blessings that we will never be in the same building. car. kitchen.
train to D.C.
underground through New York City

and despair the chance it should happen in Paris

exhale at the thought that we will not see these eyes at the same gathering, any gathering, that I never feel your breath that close again

whatever forces you believe in, expansion, contraction, adhere to their laws and stick close to the walls

come to know Faith.
Believe.

Pray.

that you’ll never have my fingers touching your neck, beguiling you with the only charms I’ve learned and some I’ll come to know, opening your closed book with my smile.

because if I ever see you again, I will inhale every breath you breathe. I will swallow you and hold you inside; I will extinguish your doubt. I will linger on your thoughts until decay. I will seep into your heart like ink spilled on clean white paper, never to be written on again.

you will never see the light of day.

so pray.