“Don’t dream me into someone else”

    —Fernando Pessoa

perhaps outside

the speaker’s range

the assumptive you

at least by custom

we follow from reasons

no one still knows

old maps decayed

so we listen to voices

turn right soon turn left

we are lost now

together as before

in some one’s dream

I trust this other

as I trust you

in the dark to hold hands

(March 10, 2024)