Elucidating Questions

Dear shadow,

I can see you lurking, but you are very small like you’re afraid

But I hear you buzzing.

Apprehensive and on the edge.

If you can’t hold on to the edge anymore you can come up here.

I don’t bite.

There is a hand on my shoulder.

My ears ring the shadow

Is very loud.

Why do I see light when I touch you

What a strange sound.

The world goes surreal around me I could be underwater

The shadow has gone back but his presence still lingers in my vision

And a prickle at my fingertips tells me Jupiter is almost out of sight.

Goodnight.

He says

Good luck and goodbye.

How strange.

Yes the words echo in my ears,

In the ringing,

Sometimes I wonder when the world goes back to normal

And then I remember the missing link

I hear a girl, she says “what?”

But I know it didn’t actually happen, not here anyways.

That’s the thing.

Nothing ever happens here.

And then the energy crackles and fizzles out,

I never get to say the words I want to,

Mostly I just type them and wish I could hear the reply.