Wake up, you say
as you shake my hair
Look, you say
while the morning
sun falls flush
on my face
What, I say,
is it that
has lit a fire
in your eyes;
and your fingers
are an arrow
as I follow
your silent trail
to the skies
and glimpse a
rainbow come our way.

Name the stars and
constellations, you say
in a falsetto voice
so I start speaking
in a half trance
"Sirius, Andromeda,
Bellatrix, Regulus"
and this time
you shake your hair
and say those are
names of Harry Potter
characters and I
sigh and confess
that those are
the only celestial
names I know.

And we go on
talking, late into
the night, word
after word, one
question after another
outside the dew
stained glass window
the sky changes colour
and the Earth's axis
tilts once more
and we continue
to spar with words
spilling secrets and
laughing at jokes
until we know
each other as well
as two people can
ever hope to know.

- Avitaj

@despair @dopamine @thegreymetaphor @greypages_