My steps in your steps
I am your ghost
My breath in your ear
I'm  always this close

My nightmares are

Like shifting

Videocassetts

Fast forward

Rewind

Fast forward

Rewind

I realized what

A lie it was

That dream that was

Almost as pretty

As your eyes

It forcibly turned my head

Lead my gaze

To a promise I knew

Would never be filled

To a new void

I knew would be dug.

No one likes
Sitting alone
In a parking lot
Waiting
No one likes
Being pushed around
Held against a wall
Bracing
No one likes
Hateful looks
Scoffing smiles
Breaking
No one likes
Ignorant jokes
Cruel remarks
Lingering
No one likes
A unkept mind
A bully

They said,

"Don't blink."

I did

Too many times

And you

Sank to

The bottom

Like a

Poison in

My blood

So buried I
Wish to drown
Just get it over with
I think about
Ripping my face apart
With the bathroom scissors
Because I hate
Looking like you

Your skin
Is the freezing
Water on my feet
The reason for my
Pain my          
Distance
The only reason
I bleed and
Scream to the trees