After your death I'm rummaging through the drawers for your bottle of Vicodin hoping your ghost isn't watching.
Why can I never stay clean? Is it because I'm weak? I see myself like your husband in 20 years a tired young drunk sick of feeling old, who died before his grandchildren were even born.
I hear footsteps in the kitchen and wonder if it's you hiding them from me — but I hear lots of things when the floor beneath me crumbles and I'm left dangling from my barbed sanity with ****** hands.
I swore I'd keep it locked away, this heirloom of addiction, but right now I need to hold it and feel it because I miss you and I'm not strong enough to accept the fact that you're gone just yet.
So far this is the only moment I've told myself you're not here, when I find and swallow the last three pills that couldn't stop your pain, then wash them down with gin that wasn't enough to stop mine.