TRUST

Two people with OCD walk into a relationship

I didn't see it at first

until he pointed it out

now I see it everywhere

in the push and pull of matter

like a net that surrounds us

just barely holding everything 

together

once I looked directly at it

between the ribs that keep

me 

from it

and was swallowed by the dark 

it has infinite depth

I have the beach view 

from his car window 

in the dead of night, with my face pressed against the glass I can see

black water flowing into black sky

my mind plays tricks

I still don't know if it's there because

he said it was

or if it always has been

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i think we are all a little OCD about trust.
And if that has been broken once, it never is quite the same.

Like a cracked window repaired, but there is still something different about it.
It expects to get cracked again, it knows it will.
j.