you never in this bed experience the weight of the dark heavy on your chest
you never awake in this room alone
you never have to stay to hold the cieling feeling dizzy in the height of it all
you never have to expand so much that you alone would fill the space of two
or shrink so much in size that you could walk unnoticed between crowds of strangers
everybody stares in the other way
and yet it is here
in this room
under this black and white weight
under these blinking stars that i weigh up it all
(alone).