I haven't forgotten what your smile looks like,
the way it breaks open the sky in halves,
how it once carved a path through my ribs,
a gentle cut that never stopped bleeding.
I haven't forgotten the curve of your lips,
a half-moon rising in the darkness,
pulling the tides of my body to shore,
reaching inside to stitch the torn seams.
I haven't forgotten the way you tasted,
like salt and sugar mixed in a kiss,
your laughter a bird trapped in the room,
desperate to escape but never willing.
I haven't forgotten the silence you left,
the echo of that smile in empty rooms,
a ghost haunting the space between breaths,
and still, it lingers, a wound unhealed.