it’s the strung of the first few seconds. open a portal to when these words swarmed like flies in delusion, whithering onto your name spelt on my phone. Whisking dreams in my head. I should have turned off the light, dimmed the hope; so that they would fly away.
I hold the song in my palm as if an artifact. funny as I go to write artifact my keyboard suggests artificial as if it knows
because that’s what it was and that’s it raw. and as for me it was me who tied ribbons around the lyrics to be a certification of us that never was. it was the only part of you I could ever have when I was alone because who was I to treat you like a friend when everyone was your friend.
I’ve untied ribbons and stepped back, so far back that I have reached a time before I had known you or before I had claimed you in my mirage.
apart from tonight I gues