Subjunctive Polarity

 the words say us. trembling keys in broken locks. 

the doors sway. open to our persistent panic. the impossible our sweetest temptation. 

i learned your touch too easily. i saw the cliff, but jumped anyway. 

gravity warned i would never know. but i refused to listen. 

we scraped the bottom. we grazed the apex. 

the difference next to nothing. 

i don't know exactly what love is. but i know what it isn't.