I've been waiting
The hue of your name
Has faded

Left out in the sun for too long
Crumbling off of my tongue
Favorite things

Have yet to walk out from my brain
Sick of being kept there
But not really being used

Old news
Disregarded
Sometimes I wonder

Did you ever have that talk with your dad?
Did you try?
Did you watch as the words shivered out of your jowls

Curls of anxiety
Wafting throughout your stomach
Sometimes

The idea of you folds itself out of the corner of a favored book
And I miss you
Other times

I forget you even existed