The only smell on you should be my cherry blossom perfume
but instead your clothes smell like honey and vanilla and don't
get me wrong, I like the smell of honey and I like the smell of vanilla
but when I looked in the shower yesterday the bottles said that
you smell like pine needles and
Old Spice which I haven't
smelled since our 2nd date
so tell me is she shaped like the
bottles that exposed you or is
she shaped like someone else
tell me who she is; tell me when you met her because
I have some questions for her but mostly I want to know one
thing and it is why I wasn't good enough for that honey and vanilla
⁃ Fragrance is a gossip
I am not the only traveler
I am not the only traveler
not the only wanderer
in the dark matter
of objects moving
and swirling around my fingers
searching for the gravity of you
the anchor to my swaying limbs
and the air to my fading lungs
fingertips only grasping the empty space
when they should be gripping your hands
touching your skin
and sinking in that sure embrace
I am not the only traveler
I know that you’re looking too
maybe if we collide in the same gravity
like planets in the same sphere
like falling stars just before
they reach Earth
before we burn out
in the atmosphere of our broken hearts
how about if we just share the same flames
for one night
just before it all turns to dust
***
The first line belongs to this song
Lord Huron - The Night We Met
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtlgYxa6BMU
...but since I was on a shuffle and it took a moment to write this, I have to add this as well Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAMM8JVbr8g