The Universe Expanded

I’ll give you each love letter back

We’ll laugh before every joke is told

We’ll pose after every photograph

Has been removed from the negative

[indistinct muttering]

With every smile we lose a line

Watch the stars fall back into the sky

Cork the wine

Unbake a cake

Take the dog back to the RSPCA

But I don’t mind losing you this time

I’ll meet you coming backwards

I’ll meet you coming back

When the universe has expanded

Time will contract

You’ll come back

I’ll meet you coming backwards

Next time

We make-up start an argument

Tears crawl back into your…

I turn from a friend

Of your friend

Unintroduced

Forget your name forevermore

But I don’t mind losing you this time

I’ll meet you coming backwards…

Yes I’ll meet you coming back

But we move forwards

Into emptiness

Into the void

Into the universe

We’ll part as happy strangers

From a long friendship

That grew from

Such a love