Kissing In the rain

[electrodx]

Nostalgia is a disaster

each memory, a small death
that brings total obliteration

The sister rented Great Expectations
foolishly I complied to her insistence
that I watch it with her.

I still don't know how it ends

A thunder storm prompted me to take off
grab some music
grab the flask and run

I end up standing next to
the same broken bench
In the middle of the storm
drinking the same vodka from
the same flask
the godspeed in my ears fading into the rain

I don't understand why
everything it telling me
to pick up the phone and call,
that there is no too late.
but you don't have to worry
my voice will remain only a memory to you.

I do however understand now
the pathology of this thing.
sometimes a heartbreak is so intense
so unjust
so destructive
that it passes like ripples in a pond
from heart to heart
to keep yours from breaking.

I'm tired and
soaking wet. and ironically
I don't have a conclusion.

Love,
Dx