Without warning
You drop to earth
With a crash
Ignorant of the consequences
The shockwave
From your sudden landing
Shreds the facade
Of normalcy
Things will
Never be the same
As we try to recover
From your arrival
But would we have
Been better off
Had you not arrived?
Of all the places
You could’ve visited
You wander into my corner
Of the universe
As proof of
A place
I will neither know
Nor relate to
I repeatedly
Tell you
I cannot help
But you won’t
Stop asking–
So in defeat
When I
Finally toss
My uneaten bagged lunch
To you
You call me names
And refuse
To take it?
Well I’m not
Too proud
To take it back
And still eat it
You saw how it ended
Do you care how it ever began?
They’ve sent you away
Because how they’ve been
Treating you so far
Hasn’t been to their liking
We have chosen
To become
Prisoners
For we’ve allowed
Ourselves to be
Confined
With others of
Our own kind
Because personal belief
Falsely offers relief
From sharing space
With those
Unlike ourselves
It’s only irrational
If it hasn’t
Happened
To you
Who I am now
Is useless
But maybe
I’ll be useful
At a later date
And you asked
Why you?
You don’t daydream
You’d rather read what a friend
Shared on your timeline instead
You don’t get out much anymore
Unless it’s to spend days off
At the lake with family
You don’t think about outer space
And could care less about driver-less cars
Unless one hit you
The only things you
Pass along via social media
Are about missing pets
Or photos about your loved ones–
But all those things
Are what make you
So beautiful
The man at the carnival
Said the unicorn was
Overqualified to be a horse
The lady at the zoo
Said they already
Had a centaur
The wild horses said
They had no openings in their team–
“Now please get off our plain”
And so the unicorn
Had to decide
Whether to keep its horn
Hide it
Or cut if off
The Space Between Me and You 