Cordial Thieves

turn and persuade the void. loud corners arguing with silent walls. 

confessions in stolen smiles. touch's mercurial time machine.

the sour of absent folds. fading creases. missing poisons.

differential atoms. execute the changes. 

as if we are only a scale. measuring the weight of strangers.

stop and count the footsteps. the angles change. the depth is constant.

the light stumbles through our grief. suffocated by the clarity of distance. 

gravity yawns. unimpressed by our calculations.

pause and caress the edge. 

it's been waiting so patiently.