Currently

By N.T. Chambers

I am not
the universe
as you are not
the stars
and we are
not nearly
the tomorrow
we once
might have been.

Just us, now -
different and unsure 
of the neighbors
we’d be in a year
or the couple people
would see 
in twenty -
two people
trying to be one
but living
as one and a half -
somehow escaping 
completeness
but still chasing
its dream
as always.

Never quite seeing
the sunrise 
with each other -
instead choosing
to talk 
about it 
with others -
too bashful,
perhaps,
to show what
really matters
to one another -
not trusting it 
to be enough.     

N.T. Chambers writes about the emotions and experiences intrinsic to human nature. Numerous works have been published in the following magazines: Grassroots, The Banyan Review, Inlandia, The Orchard Poetry Journal, The Decadent Review, New Note Poetry, Quibble Magazine, Red Coyote, Share Literary Journal, Bluebird Word & Bookends Review and Black Coffee Review.