time and a place

a time
and a place
for things like
dark rooms
talking close
within
and
inside breaths
subjective realities
a dream state
of
awoken sleep
and
speaking silences
lapsed judgement
relapsed friendships
with familiar
laughs
familial conversation
hands that
touch fingertips
murmuring deep voices
and words
of my favorite
minstrel
a time
and a place
for things like
forgetting
when loneliness
becomes
welcome
and longing
paves the way
to a brief vulnerability
usually
unable to reach a surface
so far from the depths
of a wall
rarely breached
only to be
locked back up
with a lost
skeleton key