arienette

we held each other for a long time, an island of sorrow. people swirled around us and near us but did not penetrate our moment- i could hear you breathing and nothing else. i could feel all of your bones pressing against all of my bones, fusing together for a moment and jolting back to their origins. i kissed yr neck and you kissed my forehead, and then our lips touched so very briefly, and i wanted to run away anywhere, run away from my life and the decisions i had made. i wanted to wipe that melancholy look from your face and replace it with something pure and joyful...
and then you let go, and i let go.
we rode our paper boats downstream, back to the holes we'd dug for ourselves, and dove in headfirst.