An Unknown Known Face

I am not at those coffee shops

and those airports.

Don’t stand in my favorite aisle

of that bookstore.

Don’t push and push and pull

those

huge glass doors to find me.

Don’t run on those escalators

and

enter those elevators.

Just,

don’t try to find me.

Don’t search for my scent

in other people

you can’t breathe the same love,

twice.

Let’s only meet by coincidence, no?

Let’s count on serendipity for once.

Let’s doubt if it was you whom I saw

in the rushed office lunch hours

at Cyber City.

Let’s miss each other

by a few seconds.

And even in those chance meetings

let's stand on the

opposite metro platforms

facing

each other.

And between those clusters of

unknown faces

let's

see each other.