Insomniac Gait ⟦dede mashup⟧

I know you by your shoulders The way they carry hours The geometry of grief In your stride You know me by The way I turn at cul-de-sac Reading signs nobody wrote In languages of want The framework of the unsaid Built between us Step by step The topography of a clamor Spot by spot, hurr Ardor, mm, in my parlor Trading maps of unlived years Your route was north when mine was west But here we are All south At the intersection of separate exiles dedededededededededededdededededededeedeedeuu The shifting geometry of the arbitrary Rewrites us We are cartographers Of everything we cannot name You see yourself In my insomniac gait The tilt of your head Measuring distances Only the sleepless know adadaddauuu adadaddududududududu dadadaaa dadadeuuu eaaaah You carry your atlas in your posture I carry mine beneath my ribs Two adrift biographies Learning each other's coordinates The city speaks and gasps Through the scribbles of its marks The ones that stay lit When everyone else is sleeping (..............................) The infrastructure of the unsaid Rises between us The topography of a ghost Becomes our only country We don't speak We don't need to Your blight is my light We are twin maps Of territories That never existed They should though... Until we walked them Into being One damned crossing at a time 🔏 © 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗘𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘇