somewhere between your smile and your frown are the days we may have caused each other pain without even knowing, not noticing the spaces between your fingers and mine are getting wider, crevices moving farther apart, the fissures more pronounced, so well defined. so much so that when sunlight hits our bodies, one can make out your shadow and mine, together, but separated by some sadness inconceivable to the naked eye.
somewhere between my eyelashes and your chest are the tears shed when we can no longer meet halfway in closing circles. i would run around its side and you would always be at the center and we no longer come to the understanding of things.
somewhere between the flicker of lights you come home late, quiet as a whisper, afraid to startle sleep in my eyes. but i know that the closer you lay beside me, the farther you move away from my embrace.
somewhere between our breakfast of coffee and cigarettes is the smoke that clouds our conversations, boiling in heat then later catching fire. and we burn and burn till we turn into embers that turn to ashes. we have burned our love out so that when i look into your face i know… that somewhere between your smile and your frown, we have fallen apart.
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