...

where are those vulnerable ones? the ones that burn out like roman candles?
I have my "aww" here stuck in my throat. where are those tender ones, now? the ashen ones, the pale ones.
the hands stretched out, the curtains lifted. the bare hearts and the bare minds.
where are those angelic ones? the broken ones, the kind ones. where are those loving ones?
the unbounded ones, the unlimited ones.
where are those simple ones? the open ones, the honest ones.
where are those beautiful ones?
I have my "aww" here stuck in my heart.

come out, come out wherever you are. only the true ones, the sharing ones, the loving ones, the maskless, planless, grudgeless, hopeless ones.

i have many many around of the other ones. i want you now.