It comes in waves,
        deeper than the ocean goes.
                           •••

I tried to figure out your poems for so long
I was becoming one;
Line by line
I absorbed the ink,
Dissolved into the paper,
Tumbled into random commas.  
Only to emerge when it was complete

What was complete?
                                    
                           ­        “Exactly.”

this world couldn’t break me,
for it had hardened me long ago.

I loved an empty being,
Gave my all just so you could feel something,
But somewhere along the way,
You came alive as I withered away.

My artificial heart beats
only
for
you.

I realized I had grown up
When I looked around for familiar faces
And I had found none.

When


         The

    Sun
  
                 Felt


      Wet


                 And
  
The

             Water
  
       Went
                             Dry.
  
Is when I knew things weren’t right.