22 May 2025

Ephemeral Rapport

Our ships got wrecked 
At the same time and
We got stranded on
An island for a while.

There was nothing to 
Do much except talk
About poetry.

You wrote to me and
Read it to the birds.
I learned to write too 
And you were happy to
Listen.

Good times, really.

The breeze was clean.
Night-sky was promising.
But how long can one
Be stranded?

The rescue teams 
Showed up like age
Though we didn't 
Want them to.

We were pulled back 
To normalcy.

We were briefly alive 
In the long stretches of
Our reveries- to become 
Metaphors with wings.

But whatever grows
Wings should fly.
So there you go-
Go soar high.

I got an ocean waiting 
For me, hopefully.
Lemme happily dive.