I keep looking at pictures of you
so that maybe it won't be so hard to see you next time.
i'll get my eyes used to seeing you,
so that my spine won't shrivel
as the present motion picture
swivels through my heart.
but i think it's harder to look at pictures
than to look at you in person.
the pictures show what we used to be
snapshots of what we could have been
but the present us
well,
isn't us
it's me
and you
both knowing what we put each other through
and that's enough to numb any poison

our past is my antidote