Staring at the crescent shaped scar on your arm,
Smelling you, like outside, like old rain on the pavement.
You rub my back slowly and I fall asleep

Now. Sitting alone in the kitchen, sipping twice re-heated coffee,
Snow is melting off the grass.

He left behind reminisce I can't return
his imprint in the sheets.
old hairs  left behind from tossing and turning.
I can only find his warn out socks in the garbage can,
caked in blood from a hard walk to work

I take out the garbage, dump the coffee,
Talk to a few people that fill a gap, and they
Tell me how much they love me.

They are just words now, with no connection.
I say it back to be polite, I smile to ease the burden.


and maybe at one time I loved them too.