For a moment
I stand thick
In the stillness,
away from the water
caught pooled
in your mind.
You ask me what to do,
and from somewhere
I say "run,"
so you run
down the path
away from us.
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I imagine
you stopping
looking
at an impossible
blue sky,
painted for this moment
and seeing nothing.
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And still you
choose
to come back
and breathe
with me,
and stay.