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Thoughts are lighter than air. 
They are what we have 
and think we’re missing 
because it’s too hard 
to go beyond the fact
that they haunt us—

or

‘another reason
for why we can’t
fly.’

                    But we both know each word 
                    infected with love 
                    has a soul,
                    a pinprick of light 
                    too blinding &
                    too clear,

                    too echoingly hypnotic, 
                    and evanescent.

                                    And the ironic thing is 
                                    we remember them all,
                                    in the sounds we can’t hear
                                    but pulsate in our heads,
                                    in the sleeplessness of waking dreams,

                                    in the last drying rain
                                    in the shades of shadows,
                                    
                                    we
remember them all. 

                                                        At least that’s what I’ll say,
                                                        when you finally 
                                                        forget me. 
     

 

   

     

 

     

 

 

"There was a man who I once knew,
for me there was no other.
The closer to loving me he grew,
the more he would grow further."

-Lang Leav

Inspired by Sigmund Freud's quote, "Where does a thought go when it's forgotten." 
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