Indifference

One time
Words, sincere and naked,
Reflecting life
Like a beautiful, painful mirror
Brought us together.
Tonight
Something,
An indifferent force,
Pulled us apart.

Amid the music and the lights
You glanced
At me through me
Like a half-empty glass;
The indifference of nightlife
Glinting in your once-thoughtful eyes.

On the walk home
In the cool air
Wrapped in myself I note
The moon’s stare;
Its light shining
On all stumbling souls alike:
The vomiting man,
The giggling woman,
The sleeping bum,
And me -
A light that you shall never see.