don't be a runaway

for all of you
when everything dusty
inside threatens to blow two thousand
miles away
before you see it go and
settle into the sea

don’t be

don’t be a stranger
when you check the box
that says,
“remember me,”
and breathe a full pause in
and out

and doubt

: don’t

and when you
are jazzy and blue
and i am blushingly
secretly red,
know that i don’t
disbelieve
anything you've ever said

i just don’t think you can finish
so soon

so don’t
because you,
you,
and i
none of us would ever
really lie