your scent is draped around my room like fairy lights, my love; they shine as bright as stars at night (how darkness makes faint lights shine bright) as bright as sun above. remember how my skin would glow in early morning haze? reflecting off your sunlight heat (your skin like cigarette smoke, sweet) upon me you would gaze and, like a gazania daisy, i opened up to you (oh all the things i told you i think i must have told you everything) and now without your sunlight i close up like daisies do. my lips still taste your lips, though, my hands still hold your hands; my fingers close around themselves- (i’m closing in upon myself oh god, why aren’t you here to hold me? i’m falling through like sand into the bottom of an hourglass) i walk through these strange lands (alone.)