i want to write about you
and how i wish i could unravel your dense mind
make your complicated countenance simple
to yell at you about how i passionately love
how easily your words flow to and through me
and echo when you're gone
how i feel as if you're the only one i have left
and how desperately i wish i could hide you
in my lungs and breath you
so that you couldn't move
and couldn't leave me
alone

i'm pretending i didn't hear you tell me
that you had to leave