i hear this line a lot in shows

“i look up at the sky at night

and wonder if we are looking at the same moon

thinking about the other”

i’m in a different time zone right now

across the globe

so that is quite impossible

monsoon season in india has just begun 

i sat in the living room

staring through the window

thunder flashes

the wind blows with such a booming force

i can see newspapers and leaves 

flying in the sky

trees shaking their branches with such vigor

water falling onto the ground 

in sheer volume 

and the street light at the end of the block

placed there to bring forth luminescence 

in order to glimpse all of it in it’s raw beauty 

we cannot see the same moon

at the same moment

but perhaps

the thunderstorms here

match the harsh texan rainfall 

across the world

perhaps we both stare 

through our living room window

or bedroom

or even outside looking up at the sky

at the same droplets of water

that fall onto our eyelids 

perhaps in the same second

a droplet of water falls towards our lips 

and we can taste 

that slight hint of freshness

in the exact same moment

perhaps

as we feel the wind in our hair

and stare into the distant clouds above us

we will think of each other

and wonder if similar water is pouring 

onto each other’s rooftops

and perhaps

that is enough

for now