My mind has begun to go crazy tonight as I search the city streets for you.
We created these buildings we do not care about and I can not help but want to set them ablaze when I think of you.
In my mind, the beautiful ones always burn first in the fire, just as you did on that July day.
I will not have remorse for my destruction and tearing down the walls built to keep me out.
Your brown eyes still haunt them all even when I rest, so why should they stay alive when I wake?
I know you are happy on your side of the world. I do.
I know that the buildings there are built with the sweetest of intention and crafted to exude both their grandiosity and their humble origins.
Here each town looks the same and every city is much too hot.
I feel it in my bones that I will collapse in each of them before my days are over and I finally die.
Oh, how I wish you had taken me with you to see the toucans in Panama.
I wish you could have shown me your origins with pride.
I wish you could have shown me how beautiful humanity can be when it is built by our shared condition and the nurturing we find in community.
I would have flown every plane, sailed ever ship and written every letter to be by your side.
Alas, I never got the chance.
So now, I wake to dreams of you and pray to go back to sleep.
I scream at the sun and he laughs.
I cry to Luna and she weeps alongside me.
I talk to the universe and she has no answers for me.
The sun, the moon and the universe know it is all just a matter of time for me to reach you.
I suppose I know that, too.
But for now I will rage against the passage of time and hope my body will forgive me for the fight.