Only Water

At six minutes passed

She called

I was layering on

Blue and yellow

In the closet

It wasn’t that I was late

They were just early

So they waited at the dome

With their backs to Mercury

I walked and

The city slid out from

Above me

I met her and

We embraced like old friends

We abandoned her charges

We searched

And we found some that look like windows

The boat – which I like

Four about our lives and

A gust of air that she’ll suspend

(Along with her mother’s)

The instant she lives-

I took her wrongly

(Later, we learned there was only room for right)

And we flew along

What was bright red

To even more, where we would

Ignore our watches

Or try to.

The damn Starbucks

Was too expensive

But it always is

And we stopped anyway

Because she didn’t want to go back

And I didn’t want her to

We thought

We had separated ourselves-

But not really

It was just water

Only water

That’s all.