and i'm beginning to forget you
like the way a mattress loses the imprint of its sleeper after a while when you can't sleep there anymore because it becomes too uncomfortable
like the way a computer shortens its history when you don't use it for a while
because you just can't get up off the floor to do something
like the way an 90 year old woman forgets her husbands name and then her own after years of hearing those two names over and over
like the way the brain makes room for different, better memories and moments
following a few months that were kind of drab and uneventful

and i hope that after a few more months then i won't even remember your face or how your laugh sounded when you didn't hide it and the perfect way your chest rose and fell after every single breath you took or the flowing rhythm your fingers kept when they raced across your piano keyboard. i'll forget the way you look at her and instead of me.

The day that you finally left me
I think that mountains crumbled into the sea
The Heavens collapsed upon Hell
And the universe left my eyes and
Fled into yours

I've come to the realization that you didn't do anything wrong
You were only doing what you thought was right
And as much as that ******* hurts
That could never be wrong.

daylight is the first note of morning-
violet and singing for a triumphant breath!

Hold my bones together as they are falling to dust
And keep my chin lifted up with the fine tip of your pointed finger

Make sure that my eyes never stray from yours
Keep them there with a glance such as that of a hundred galaxies

See to it that my soul is alight with a fire as bright as that of the sun
Burning flames and all

I want to hear you tell me that I'm the most wonderful thing you've ever seen
In a voice that echoes down the tunnels of my heart into my chest

Maybe you could caress my cheek and whisper in my ear that nothing compares
To the thousands of doves that claw the inside of your stomach
Until they are calmed by my touch

Someday the feeling of being lost at sea without a companion will vanish
And the feeling of being lost at sea with a companion will come back

And then we'll find land together.

i don't have anyone to call anymore on the nights when i can't breath
and the lights have left my eyes

It's been a year since you said you loved me for the last time
It seems like it's been a millennium since I told you I would always love you
And I find that even over billions of centuries I still love you
Love the wind that rattles through your lungs
Love the rivers rushing around the bends and curves in your veins
Love the mountains ridging your skeletal frame
Love the valleys denting the smooth plains of your skin
I find that I could go back and say the same things I did a year ago
And feel the same gravitational shift I did a millennium ago.