I learned how to breathe,
cramped naked in a soapy, smog-filled tub.

Innocently laid bare, a human sacrifice to the drowning waters,
I opened my lungs, suicide clinging there like mold.

I forgot how to breathe,
kneeling on open ground, nails dug deep into dirt,

watching your carcass disappear back into earth's womb,
faceless, unaware of where you had left me.

I learned how to breathe,
Wrapped around a picture of you.

****** wrists, an irreparable body,
I reached devil possessed hands to my throat to attempt to find you.

I forgot how to breathe,
When I felt your **** body.

Your skin, heated and smelling of ***,
You kissed me, lingering lips fixated into mine.

I learned how to breathe,
Watching crying street lights fly by me,

A rumbling car, the wind in my hair,

The last, quiet farewell from you.