This game of us

Let’s play this game, you stay there, under that tree, right in that door; I will stay here, in this seat, right in this school. 

And the distance will be our shield, I will protect you by protecting me and you will protect me by protecting yourself. 

I am sorry it couldn’t be another way, I am sorry we can’t work together, I am sorry it is so hard for us to be without damaging each other... I am sorry for you, I am sorry for me and I am sorry for us. And while I cry this sad fortune, I will pray every day for you wishing you good fortune and I will dream of us every night, those love stories with happy endings that we were not able to reach out. 

[Madelaine Bustamante. September 6, 2019]