Trapeze

• The only way this works
• is if we catch each other.
• We’re experienced, yes, but the connection
• is never guaranteed, even after all these years.
• The nets below don’t carry
• the weight of our selfish love,
• nor does the crowd.
• They wonder how we do what we do,
• why we take the risks we take,
• but we’re just doing our job,
• putting on a performance
• for an audience of one.
• Sometimes we fall
• but that’s a part of the deal –
• We’re acrobats of the dark she said,
• two loose cannons
• shooting for the stars,
• two trapeze artists vaulting
• over loneliness,
• two unhinged orbits
• ready to collide.