When you’re sad
the birds will still chirp happily
outside your window
and gloat about it.

I lay motionless in my bed
and it’s been days,
I hear echoes in my head saying,
“We should go our separate ways”

Stale as a leaf
I lay on my sheets
After falling from a tree
That has grown tired of me
hanging on its branches.

Her lips were plump like red cherries
When she licked them her tongue brushed through them like silk
My mouth picked up her fallen stems from the floor
My mind objected to the marriage  
but in that hot moment
my tongue and her tongue tied the knot.

I bit into your apple anyway
Even though I knew my bibliotic facts
I let my temptation bite into you
but I didn't doom the world
I doomed myself.

I made an assumption
Turned out to be true
Over my head floated puzzle pieces of you
I found out you cheated
Not just once but repeated
It took me months to sit
and snap together all the pieces
that would fit
And the picture on your puzzle box display
Was not of me to my dismay
But of someone I've seen before
Someone you've tasted
and asked for more
And as you groom yourself for their delight
As my gut tells me "I told you so,
I was right"
I know I'll be the last to smile
When it's their turn to put together all the pieces in that pile