Two Into One | John Grey
We feel solid
sitting together on the couch
but really we’re melting
and could, at any time,
become this one two-headed
fluid thing.
We’re just together,
nothing more, nothing less,
thinking that we started
as two people
and when we’re done
there’ll still be two of us.
But love is a kind of gravity.
Two lives caught up in it
can’t be so close
and hope to escape
the two-way pull.
It’s not fusion, not loss,
but the kind of joining
that lets each of us
lean harder into the world,
We’re two bodies, yes,
but we orbit one bright,
dangerous center.
We’re drawn into it.
With any luck,
we’ll never come out.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, Trampoline and Flights. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Levitate, White Wall Review and Willow Review.