I Dreamt Tomorrow, Yesterday

All my dreams are set
in my childhood home
A decade removed but
it shadows me still
People I won’t know
for years gathered amongst
The same bricks and stone
that built me
Past and future holders
of my soul are overlapping
Ghosts of time interwoven
on my old bedspread

In the backyard that dances
with me in the rain
My first heartbreak unravels
me again
At the kitchen table that
teaches me to write
I hear a friend’s voice
for the last time
On the bathroom floor that
keeps my tears a secret
I re-meet the one destined
to command my heart

Maybe this is what love
could become
Every version of me
existing all at once
All future selves treasured
within their past
Held by the walls
that watched them grow
Already revelling in all
the ways they’ll ache
And yearn and fall
and become