Justification

A Poem

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

what mad things
we’ll do for love

what heights
we’ll reach
for that one last kiss

and we walk down city streets
as strangers to each other now —
once friends,
the kind who tell each other everything

but one conversation
obliterated what came before —
a crash course in the meaning
of a happily ever after smashed to bits

and you looked my way once,
your lips curved in a familiar smile,
as my heartbeat thudded in my ears
while you hummed your favorite song

and you crossed my path
a dozen times each day
till i wound my arm around your waist,
the happiness winding between us like threads

but we took scissors
to all those careful webs
until all we had was a mess of string
and all we had left was a knot of memories