like the grey white hotel sheets
       you tell me you love me
i know it's true
   and i love you too

like light peeping around a
            block out blind
                               you're a constant
the brightest thing in the morning

like the humid summer air
    enclosed around us
                 you held me closer and
   tighter than you ever did

like the stains inside coffee mugs
   no scrubbing will remove
             the scars you engraved
  using pain to forget me

like the bleached white towels
    where they've removed the nasty colours
  breaking down what was
            to what it is now

us.