I rose early that day but you'd left far - too early.
That night you didn't come back. Too late to go back.
You arrived in another time-dimension, somewhere inner space, there we met. They watched.
We never said hello. It just wasn't us.
It was now us.
A 'corporate' merger, you joked.
We never said goodbye.
Old loves haunt new you.
'He did and I don't want you ...too,' she thought and they read my mind.
It mattered in the past but here was the future: the personal just a pronoun.
He opened their present.
Tick-tock.
Blown to kingdom come.
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