blather
exchanges
Soma She greets me.
I feel a lonely warmth on my cheek
And she smiles.
She checks my pockets
For sins I committed or loves I found.
I have nothing to offer
But my uncertain hands.
A failed bridge.
Still she looks to me for
Fulfillment.
I avoid her eyes
And point to the polluted sky.

The moon waits in the darkening expanse
As it steadily replaces the sun.
An unfailing reminder
Of terribly constant transience
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