Hello

Hello. Hello. Hello.

A greeting that is stale on my tongue.

Hello, fellow human.

Hello. 

Nice to greet you again. 

Here, I have set the table.

I put a spoon down, there, alongside the plate, 

but I don’t know why as we are serving neither soup nor jello.

Hello.

I missed you. I think. 

It has been so long since I’ve spent time with desire.

Want is a strange word these days.

What I want is_______. 

What I desire is_____. 

What I crave in the deep, deep bellows of my being is_______.

Hello.

I didn’t see you there, hello. 

Funny how you can misplace a whole human. 

I used to know myself, and then I got lost, a little, 

And to rediscover we must redirect we must recalibrate.

I think. 

I don’t quite know.

Hello.

How do you enter a room?  Empty.

How do you leave a room? Full. 

Hello. 

Repeat it. Hello.

You need it. Hello. 

In we go. Hello. 

Out we go. Hello.

Body crispy cracking as the bones explore what’s lacking and the breath can seek the foreign bits that don’t quite fit - we know.

Hello. Hello. Hello.

I am. I am. I am.

Hello.

I am.

Hello.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for reading. 💚

-A