I could tell you honestly
That I love you
But your laughter just
Sounds out of tune
And even his screams
Sound like a symphony
To me.

Loneliness lingers
Where your touch once
Scorched.

Stumbling in unceremoniously
To perform the theft of me
I had never been afraid
Until you taught me I should be

Someone told me once
To think of something constant
When it got too much
To look at the moon
And marvel at its permanence
Yet, if you could leave
Falling so far out of my sky
I know nothing is constant
If not you,
Then not even the moon.

How do you remove memory
From flesh?
If you knew the war zone
My skin has been
Would you shudder
Before every touch?

If all I could ever give,
Was just giving up
You'd still say it was enough.

You built a cemetery for me in your head
Just in case you found a way
To bring back the dead