INTERMINGLED / NOT TOGETHER

[Tangle — two voices sharing one breath] Intermingled. Intertwined. Two loose threads Convincing themselves They were one design. Hearts from afar. Hearts ajar. Small doors swinging open Under separate stars. [Weather Report] Tonight, The rhythm will be visible. It will glow bright Across the dark Like heat lightning Without a place to land. There is a thunderstorm in my heart— Clouds gathering behind the ribs, Rain searching for a window, Lightning crying Through the fault line Where your name used to live. [Voice One] Our hearts could dance. [Voice Two] Heart romance. [Both] Until the music changed keys And neither of us admitted We had stopped hearing The same song. [Forecast: Uncertain] I don’t know why We were pulled so far apart. Maybe we were magnets Turned the wrong way. Maybe we were planets Borrowing one orbit. Maybe love was only weather— Beautiful, violent, Never built to stay. [Refrain — spoken from opposite rooms] Not together. [Echo] Together. [Voice One] Not together. [Echo — fading] Ever. [Instrumental: rain striking metal] [The Future Enters Without Knocking] I don’t know who I’ll meet next. I don’t know where we go next. The road keeps rearranging Its bones beneath my feet. Tomorrow wears a stranger’s face And carries an unfinished beat. Maybe another heart Will arrive half-open. Maybe mine will recognize A rhythm it has never known. [Split Screen] You— Moving beneath one sky. Me— Learning another kind of light. The same moon Mispronouncing both our names. The same storm Breaking differently Over each roof. [Final Tangle — unraveling] Intermingled. Intertwined. Not erased. Not aligned. Hearts from afar. Hearts ajar. Still dancing— Just not where The other one is. [Last Pulse] Not together. But the rhythm Goes on.