We will disappear (and it's Fine)

Leaning closer, the night writes our names in fog, and the fog forgets

We're chalk on a wet wall, static on a dead channel, footprints folding back into the tide

I count heartbeats like streetlights, one by one, they click off

If endings have a flavor, it's metal and rain

We will disappear and it's fine, ash knows how to dance on the wind

No panic, no prayer, just a clean click of the latch, and the room finally fits the silence

I trade my shadow for a matchstick, strike it on the ribs of the night

Filter dust in my lungs, punk grit on my tongue, I speak in sparks and the dark nods backward

We water the rear and it's finally, we peel off like stickers from glass

Let go, let go, time is a mouth that closes, we slip through smiling

I left a note in the margin, don't worry, I underline nothing twice

We will disappear and it's fine, not a failure, an aperture

Without the world exhales us back to quiet, and the quiet fits like skin

Heart stop