The moon reflects my face
in the rear view mirror
as I drive forward,
passing strangers
late at night

Trees like weeds
they flutter, lean
street lights: stars
the radio keeps me comp’ny
as I slowly lose your voice

Submerging
in thinking;
drowning,
stars losing their twinkling
it’s so dark down here
in my sea of dreams

Swimming underneath whales
with concrete bellies,
and lined, gray backs,
covered in minnows
as small as I.

It makes little sense
why I swim away from you
the stars no longer shine
down where I follow the line
of skinny, yellow fish.

Faster, faster
I dart to the grotto
of coral, reef, sand
It’s my home for now
though it’s fathoms away
from you.

• Sarah Ellis

Source: Hello Poetry