I look through you.
Down to the bone of nothing.
Into the absent.
Your quiet mourning.
I taste the sin on your lips.
The almost good enough.
Life we could have had.
If you were a better woman.
If I were your man.
Father time funded the show.
We placed our bets.
He skipped our roll.
Now we sit alone in silence.
Like a joke we never got.
And I pray for seven chances.
As we shoot our final shot.








