Standstill Poem by Maya Hanson

Dear God, I told you
we have to change
We can't keep on living like this
We're missed opportunities,
love and stillness
locked up in a time capsule

We're locked at a standstill
despite the tense molecules around us
begging for a kiss

Because what if we
risk and step and slip and fall,
our footprints on the cliff
the only thing left of us?

And our bodies mesh together
as we hit the ground

but in reality you're still
linking your arm through mine,
laughing as the afternoon carries us
all the way to the sun,
our heads bent over the cityscapes

and I know you like I know this city view
in this second,
forever and for years
and better than you do
and all the way through
but
not at all

And our chemistry's the legend
of a thousand centuries
but we're still
at
a
standstill.