I love you enough
to close my eyes while you drive
I may be the first one to remind you to fix yours on the road.
You loved me so
to tell me I can sleep soundly as we head towards
wherever, us.
Not on who’s beside you
In the breath of some prayers and latter rides
I wasn’t going for an exhale.
in deep slumber—
You were never outside my dreams.
Just out of reach as you hand me over
to an orbit without you.
an exile now asking the brakes where to go.
Andrea D. Lim is a writer and education and reading advocate who considers General Santos City, South Cotabato, her hometown. She is always at the mercy of good words and great coffee, and she finds discomfort in arriving at hurried superlatives.