push & pull

i hope our souls will dance together one day—

know the right steps, and timing to pull closer.

because for some reason,

in this life,

we kept slipping further and further away.

never meant to be together, yet never meant to be apart.

we grew tired,

incessantly failing to synchronize our antithetical destinies.

spinning in circles—for decades.

how i wish our fates aligned for more than just a sliver of time,

for what i felt in that blip was more than anything i have ever known.

but what more can you do,

when the universe is seemingly against you?

so in this life and all my lives ahead,

i promise:

to keep learning the right steps to our dance,

learn when to pull closer, and this time,

i won’t let go.