Shoes leave footprints.
Fingerprints leave marks.
Both of yours
Are all over
My heart.

Seafoam green
Pierced my amber
Like blood in the ocean
Sharks start to gather
My lungs are the boat
Your lies are the water
Mind paralyzed by a fear
This heart can’t weather
Hope kept us afloat
But your false reassurances
Are an anchor
I refuse to tote.

I want to light 

My couch on fire

Because whenever I turn the corner

All I see is you 

Running your fingers

Through my hair

While I’m looking up 

Smiling

Then I blink

And you disappear.

I don’t keep 

My phone on me

Anymore

What’s the point?

Your name won’t show up

And everyone else is white noise

Compared to your bass

That revived the butterflies 

Making them dance in

What now is a vacant space.

I’m thinking 

If I keep myself busy

Maybe my heartbreak 
won’t catch up to me

But this day will end

I’ll run out of breath

The pinnacle of my anxiety

Crushes me like a train

For now my nightmare is living

A sunset without you again.

I was content
With your lack
Of emotional depth
Anti conversationalist
I spent three weeks
In my head
Contemplating
Moving on
Or
Letting you in
Because something inside me
Said you were just
Pulling my thread
Latched onto me
Like I was a host
Claimed I was amazing
Your heart was engrossed
But how many other girls
Did you say that to
Before you turned into a ghost?

Once upon a time
I fell in love with a girl
Who wormed her way
Into my heart
And like a cancer
She spread
Suffocating me
With her hidden agenda
Only to fail in her endeavors
While I was left
To pick up the pieces
She was destined
For a fate much worse
For one day
When she least expects it
Regret and guilt
Will consume her whole.

The worst lies
Ever told
Are those
We drill
Into
Our souls
Of a love
Mistakenly
Gone cold.