Maybe we knew each other in past lives 

I was a horse and you a unicorn 

This is why our can'ts in this world are like canters 

We are maybes trotting in different directions 

We are don'ts galloping across the horizon 

As if the grass were grander on the other side

Maybe we were insects: i was an ant and you a dragonfly 

You hovered then paused on a leaf 

I scampered around you like a frantic puppy 

Nipping lightly then backing off 

Until you peered at me with those googley eyes — searching for some reciprocation

Then you flew off

Maybe we were the tortoise and the hare 

I, slow and steady, you, fast and frenzied 

There was never a race 

Only a blur glimmer of my ancient face as you sped by 

Then i was run over — and you were gone

Maybe we were the Sphinx and the Pyramid 

I was pointy headed and looking up 

You were regal and lounging serenely looking yonder 

I was burning in the sun  

You were tanning after a run 

And then the sandstorm hit us and we were buried under and long forgotten

Maybe we would never, ever meet again 

In the next life 

and the life after that life 

and the life after that life 

Maybe these fleeting moments are all we have 

No pharaonic beginnings, fairytale endings, or 

aesopian also-rans,  

Just these poems 

And our cans.