we haven't talked in days
it's felt like a month or two
I'm trying to hold on
but everything is slipping from my grip

you were my rock, my shelter
and now that you're gone
I can see all my flaws
bright as day, highlighted once again
you've always kept me together, whole, unbroken
yet it's your words which echo in my head

your face swims in my vision
I can't get rid of it
I feel your touch in the unwanted moments
it tears me apart bit by bit
until I am nothing
it cuts into my skin, deeper, deeper
causing me to bleed
tears streaming down my face
once and once again

you--unknowing, innocent, alluring, so precious--
you break me quickly
and put me back together piece by piece
like two lives lived at once
neither aware of the other
two sides of the same coin