hands stretched across the road

i feel how we have burned in the sunlight and now we walk as easily as we can and it all seems so real and pure. in the back of the car i was cold and you told me not to feel anything, you told me to forget how to pretend. you went back to your city in the morning after i sat awake with you all night. you went back to your city and stood in the middle of it and screamed.

i wanted to move inside of you. i wanted to feel your arms bracing my back and i wanted you to breathe loudly and completely so that i knew you were whole. i wanted to know that you were whole.