Tangential 
                People
              Tangential lives
                To the circle of my life.
              Around I go.
                You touch me at points
                yet never pierce my center.
              Some hyperbolic few
                Stay with me through the curve of time.
                But are soon flung directly away.
              I go nowhere
                but back
                Though I march only forward.
              I go nowhere
                but where I'm from.
                Though I never return
              Rainy days and rainbows
                Bring me down and up,
                Yet I am flat.
              Rhythms and rhymes,
                Warm and soothe me,
                Yet I am cold
              An exposed nerve
                running a circle
                never ending
                and never blending.