AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 22: Kristie Mewis #22 and Emily Sonnett #14 of the United States walk to the field before a FIFA World Cup Group Stage game between Vietnam and USWNT at Eden Park on July 22, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Brad Smith/USSF/Getty Images for USSF).
if there was a rulebook
to this merry game we play
in concentric circles, running
around the same pyre
like some ancient ritual
but if there was a rulebook
laws, of some sort
that dictated what love was
and that what we were feeling
was something on the contrary
that everytime we gazed
into the empty pools of the other's eyes
something was lost
i think we would end up
throwing that rulebook
into the pyre
continue running in our fibonacci spiral,
throwing the ashes
into the sky
watching as they settled
over everything
we once loved