an old friend mid-street

has life been kind to you?

“it has truly tried, but then so have I and here we are”

and instead we say

“fine”

all in line with the stature of our time stamps

the widened heart vessels

exposing their every need

into the sun that just wouldn’t pop yet

like a pregnancy that has long been overdue

it’s pressure sensible from a mile away

so has it?

been kind to me?

was kind the kind of kind where

one does something to humble the other?

because then yes

life has been kind to me

and to you

it’s overdue pregnancy

asks of me

to be grateful

to see more than the underlined parts

waiting to be scanned over

I found myself grinning

mid-street

mid-chaos

mid-answer

finally sharing something
that was never mine to begin with

-D.