scales

Chin trembles
the tell I can't escape
shaken words
that come out mashed
and muddy
the anticipated return
your return
that happened
but not to me

and the silence explodes

sometimes the absence
reveals more
attuned to expression
and eye flickers
blinks
and inaudible pleas

what isn't said
makes the most sense
in the conversations
that drone on with no resolution
no lightening
no quickening
the life is drained
it never really began

and we never happened
I never even captured the
times when I thought it was truth
gone before I knew I needed to remember
the moments because it was over for you
before I could find my balance