Sides

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I woke up on the wrong side of the bed 

Feeling small

Wanting the impossible 

To be possible

I dreamt of the ocean’s 

Majestic pulsing tides

And wished that I could move them

I felt separate

From the love I longed for 

And the spark within it

That day you took me 

To the beach

We walked side by side

You saw through my tears

Picked up a shell

And held it to my ears

I listened to the whispers 

Of a thousand moonbeams

Felt the gravitational pull 

Of celestial bodies

I felt the pull of our bodies

It was then that I gave in 

To the gravity of mystery

I placed my hand 

Into the water

And watched yours follow it

The pulse from our wrists 

Rhythmic 

With the breathing tide

I threw the whisperer 

Back to the ocean

There are others 

That need her stories

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Again, I woke up on the wrong side 

I dreamt I could move mountains

How silly of me

No one can move a mountain

I am not strong enough

That day we hiked  

Side by side

I bared my soul to you 

We reached the summit

Plopping down on jagged edges

You handed me a stone

I held it close to my chest 

And sensed tectonic plates move

Between us

Infinite tiny changes

Over time

Fractal by fractal

Mountains move 

And strength comes 

We can do this

I set the stone someplace new

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I no longer wake 

On the wrong side of the bed  

It’s not something I fear

The right sides of the bed 

Are with you in the middle

There

The sides disappear

And I’ve been unprepared 

For a lot in life

But never as unprepared 

For the side of my pinky toe 

To be drawn to the side of yours

Like the tides to the moon

My new lot in life 

And in a world pushing us 

To choose sides

I know I have the strength 

To choose your side-eye 

When I make a stupid joke

To choose to see your side 

Of an argument

The perspective not my own

And feeling the years

Stretch out before us

Every dawn, every dusk

Every grasshopper chorus

We’ll dance through the days 

In the songs that we sing 

Trading in our hard lines 

For the soft in-betweens