Darling, did I make you up
inside my head?
The phantom of your touch
still lingers here
And it hurts to know you
barely care
While i’m alone and you’re
happy elsewhere.

The phantom of your presence no longer holds me;
captive
The tightened coil
You kept
around me snaps and my lungs fill with air, but
no one
else will hear the quiet, timid pulse of the haggard heart
You left
with me here

misery
you’ve kept me company
when the rest of the world
walked out
fill up my bottle tonight
and let me take another swig of
loneliness

with bated breath,
i wait
beneath the ocean foam
your ship makes wave among the currents
and i can hear the ancient sigh
of weariness
coming from the captain’s sweet lips
for i am a weary creature too,
i must attain you
o captain, my darling captain
do you hear my sweet song?
lean over for a kiss
i am alone in my thoughts
with the sea;
join me

the scientist found
solitude
in the gentle quiet
but his thoughts became consumed with
silent cackles

I locked my heart away
with equations
and hoped they could solve them
those that came close, had
no patience
those who were wrong,
didn’t care
but, what defies logic
is you solved it
and erased the answer

it landed on my shoulder
and chirped in my ear
your voice
i closed its beak
but it rang in my ear
its ignorant eyes blinked
vaguely back
i had made you up
once again