Rainy Portland

I know i'm not a saint
 but i might be your martyr 
even if just for a moment.
 
stranger my eyes to you.

 the ambience of two hollow 
tabernacles passing in 
silence under heavy raindrops.
 
 our reflections caught in 
the window of a coffee shop
 next to the old church
 on 11th and clay.

 you lifted your head to
 exchange the glance
 that said i don't know you either. 

a few more steps past the window
 and then there was only
 silence and cracked pavement.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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