please, if you do anything

dont leave

dont leave

just stay. with me

an absence of you makes echoing

chasms in my chest

heart in the marsh, empty cavity

when i feel the hollow

in my bed

the cold spot where you aren’t

i want need miss you so hard

i can taste it

i could breathe it

i could cry it

if only salty oceans

would bring me back to you, you back to me

when you’re not here

my own voice bounces around in my head

reverberates off the walls of my ribs

eternal.