Past-tense

And we
always talk in the past-tense

something as intangible
delicately deranged
and unfathomable
couldn't be touched directly

but we'd always put everything in
finding salvation in the
chance
that we might not lose
everything we've put into

recklessly running
in no expressive direction
through expanses of time
and mind

emerging
soundlessly unwanted
in the wrong side
of my brain

but still, awoken the same

because we
had never forgotten
and always talked in the
past-
tense-

scared of the present
so absent and evident.