there was a distance

once our careers took more

of each of our time

too tired to want

to have dates

too tired to want

to want to have sex

too tired to want

to talk about our work

and that is all we had

to talk about

if we didn’t tell each other

about our days

what was left to say

and she started sleeping

as soon as she came home

and i started staying out

and avoiding home

on my off days

because

the key still fit the lock

but the house no longer felt

like home