i still find your face in every memory i wish i could erase
the outline appears when i close my eyes
a sudden flicker across the surface of thought
like a hand pressed too hard against glass
i walk through rooms that no longer exist
yet you remain
a shadow carved into the furniture
a breath caught in the corners
i try to scrape you out of the silence
but the silence holds you tighter
your expression stitched into the fabric of forgetting
your absence louder than the sound of leaving
i wanted to bury it all
but the soil keeps turning itself over
and there you are again
uninvited
unavoidable
still burning through what should have vanished