Monday 16 October 2023

We talk

 'But we talk!', 

'But you do realize, this is not conversation. 

Don't you?' 


To set the record straight, 

We talk. 

It's not as though we don't. 

But it's always, 

just

are you ok? 

is everything ok? 

All good, 

you good? 

Like military code, 

like two soldiers. 

In bunkers. 

On opposite sides of the  barbed! 

And while these words

can mean a lot 

to two soldiers, 

in bunkers, 

talking their first 

or a last, 

on opposite sides 

of an impassible border, 

they mean little to lovers! 

For lovers know, 

something about borders, 

that soldiers don't. 

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