Submergence

The way the light shown made air look like underwater

But then the leaves cried—and water can only fall in the air

So we cried beneath the water

Where tears cannot fall

I looked into the sky and saw a formation of clouds that overwhelmed me with a longing as if I used to be a bird

Pull me into existence 

So I can be useful

How to find use in An emptiness

The happy person that I am with you feels like an exoskeleton that has shed off of me, a somewhat translucent foggy frame, and I look at it like a memory as an amorphous pale sack that knows nobody

If I hold you will I feel whole