The unknowing of you
Will take a lifetime
Sea salt and sage
Music in the mornings
Softness of skin
Roughness of hands
Coffee cold and sweet
Like loving you
Like losing you

And I never really knew
I had to want them back
I thought I could be owned
Just by being wanted

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?