Whoever You Are

what will it take to find you, strolling
somewhere under yellow sodium lights, hands free of mine
and have you been waiting like I have been waiting

have we met already, raincoats sweeping
past each other on a sidewalk, have we stood
under violin showers together
did fate sit by and watch it happen

will I stain you with hunger someday
when we are finally interlocked at the elbow
am I holding the ghost of you too tightly already

it's just that I can feel you sometimes
in the list of baby names I made last year on a whim, or the dreams
that feel like memories until they evanesce and scatter at dawn
something tells me whisper-soft that you are out there
and that you have been waiting
like I have been waiting