bodies converging

through the hopelessly entangled web

of furtive glances,

coffee shop catastrophes,

crashing crescendos of passion and negliegence

melancholy and softness

harshness and rage;

a deranged drama that unravels us

piece by aching piece – –

yet we keep hungrily pursuing the next act

chasing phantoms of our collective expectations

hoping for something real

somebody real

that we may feel the unified beating of emboldened hearts and honest souls:

unique fragments becoming a whole:

the crux of our lives