Out of hours

you move through the evening quietly

like it already knows your plan

same light, same locked routine

same disappearing hands

there’s a pattern in your focus

that pulls you out of reach

small hours eating your attention

without needing speech

i notice it without meaning to

then pretend i didn’t see

like observation has consequences

i’m not ready to keep

nothing ever interrupts it

nothing makes it stop

just the steady repetition

rising to the top

we’re living in parallel lines

sharing the same air

but never in the same moment

never fully there

and i try to stay present

but i drift off too

into things i don’t explain

or talk through

you follow whatever calls you

i follow mine as well

and neither of us calls it

what it feels like to tell

i have my own small patterns

that don’t look like yours

quiet ways of leaving myself

behind closed doors

things i don’t bring into daylight

things i don’t explain

just habits that replace the noise

when it gets too much in my brain

and sometimes i think we notice

more than we pretend

like we both understand the silence

we don’t defend

no confession in the structure

no breaking point in sight

just two things running forward

out of light

we’re living in parallel lines

close enough to blur

same space, different gravity

different blur

and i try to stay steady

but it shifts again

like something underneath it all

won’t let it end

you disappear into distance

i do the same

just in quieter directions

without a name

if you tried to translate it

it would fall apart

it only holds in fragments

and in the dark

two ways of not returning

to where we started from

both of us continuing

until it’s gone

we’re living in parallel lines

never crossing through

same world, different damage

nothing new

and i come back to myself

but it feels thin

like I’m not sure what part of me

I’m in

you keep your own distraction

i keep mine too

and neither of us says

what it does to you

some things don’t look like leaving

until they do