Verse: Compression

People expand
And they contract
They grow to fill a space
They shrink to hide
Within

Feeding minds they
Encapsulate worlds
Honing bodies
To contain dreams
To envelope one another

Will you fill my lungs with breath
Will you hold me In your arms
Will you explode with me
Like balloons until
We are wet and withered

Let us do
As people do and
With every expansion
And contraction
We’ll get by