I imagined I was Back with you
But that was just a Front for me.
I fell in-love with(in) you,
But you fell in-love with(out) me.
Believing I was happy,
But my sadness was on a shopping spree.
Selling wife-beaters in Winter becomes
domesticated -_ -Violence is something that needs to be more investigated.

** Just passing on the Message

I began deleting pictures from my phone when I could remember everything.
We pretended to get married and started 'shopping' around
for wedding rings.
Deleting all your numbers when I knew them off-by-heart.
That was stupid at the time
but that was the most important part.

Echoes of your laughter in the bath-tub,
Where I told my best jokes.
An imprint of the thighs that wrapped around my waist on your favorite side of the couch.
The scent of her last-cooked meal floating.
Floating in the kitchen where we made love
for the first time.
Her pheromones lay on my hoodie.
A hoodie she wore on our first date.
A Hoodie
that I knew she would need.