it almost seemed like…
but no-
it wasn’t,
couldn’t have been-

had to be imagination-
the prover proving
what the thinker thinks
he wants to hear-

had to be misinterpretation-
and if acted upon
would only lead to
humiliation-

had to be something, anything-
hallucinations-
a scene from a movie
recast as real life-
an earthquake
that caused him to slip
and fall,
that caused their bodies
to come together,
an accident-

had to be anything
but what it was-