We made a plan, before we cut the thread: We would remain friends, no more than friends. We were excited. We agreed. We said it again: Let us remain wise. We charted the course of our own oblivion. We conspired to kill the sky. We met in secret. *** And then, suddenly, we met in summer. We broke everything. We destroyed it all in a matter of moments, just as we had planned. We set siege to our layouts. Smoke filled up the air. We cried we apologized. We drowned we floated like fish lying trembling at the bottom of a pond. *** We clung to each other like thread to a needle. We forgot we were friends, no more than friends. We lay down our swords upon the earth. We sacrificed we slaughtered. We grew hardened with longing. We made love, again and again. We howled like beasts. We bled like prey. We felt ashamed. We rained we raged. We sinned. We ran. *** In the prairies of love, you and I became fr