Neighbours

Hello I see you and you remind me

To replant me basil so I do

Immediately, in your presence

The laundry… it must be done so do it at mine

Do it in a place where you owe nothing

Be yourself in this place where you are no-one

Where you exist outside of time and your presence

Is outside of the measurement of my assumption

Where we are all in the waiting room

Where the wallpaper appears as different colour

To each of us, yet we all accept each others truths

As our own, where we can be our own but each others

You need not wait for my permission

The acceptance is as inevitable as admirable as admission

You are allowed to exist as I am

Wholly, without pretence, without need

Be my neighbour, as you have been

And as I have asked for in my prayers

We trade - I do not know what I have given

Yet you offer me a four leaf clover

We share a chair between our balconies

And we share our stories over a cigarette

And we share glasses someone else offered

And questions we feel timid to ask & answer

“Even god has betrayed me for not letting me stay in these moments longer”

I could feel that now except god has heard me

And my loneliness, tonight, has been cured