I’ve hated you for quite sometime
since you’ve been gone
playing staccatos into someone else’s heart.
And I blame you
because you left
and promised to stay in touch—
that’s why all of your replies are
disgusting slurs of
h’s and a’s.

But I never let myself forget
that I was a double-edged sword, once.
It was that afternoon when you were leaving
and you covered my lips and my cheeks with
stars
and wrapped my body in your
sunlight
and your eyes
burned
because you were unaware that
I didn't know how to accept happiness.
And I looked into your eyes and smiled—
I bet I looked like the devil
before he slashes your soul and
sends you to eternity—
and said, "this is silly".

You agreed;
so you covered my lips and cheeks with
thorns
and wrapped my body in your
twilight
and your eyes dimmed with embers and
ashes.