I imagine when
They opened your chest
To find the cause
Of your unexpected death
They found my heart in place of yours

The first incision
Was made in error
I’m the one that bled
All over the clean floor
A whisper blew past my lips that said "don't go"

The heart that I stole
Weighed heavy from desire
I'll cling to it for eternity
For the all the months we let slip by
They found the holes I left in your lungs

Time is not a thief
Only grief can steal
The stars from my eyes
I don't know how you were ever real
Diamonds fall for you all the time

I keep waiting
On a text or call
That you're heading home
Not in a dark steel box on the wall
This isn't the life I imagined for us

They cut into you
And took everything I loved
The tattoos on your cold skin
Were the only thing left to touch
I'm stained with longing for someone who was

You breathed life
Into my blood with ease
I died when you died
Fizzled away into the leaves
A gust of wind ****** out my oxygen

Pieces of flesh
Slowly removed from me
They learned what I already knew
Cause of death undetermined
They found your hands still reaching

They sewed you back together
Finality struck deep in my soul
I’ll be crying for ten years
Struggling to survive ten more
They have no idea what you deserved

Forced to accept
That you were picked from the tree
Who knows who cares
They stitched me into your body
*My life becomes a mask that time demands