If beginnings are always so simple, endings must be just as hard. To watch you go would be to let you cut my wrists open and bleed on every letter you've written me, every kiss that still lingers on my not-the-same-without-you lips. To un-grip the fingerprints that make your palms what they are would be me losing my identity all over again and letting the thought of your laugh get the best of me. I'm holding my breath until the next time I see you. 7 years is a long time when 2 days are long enough And 200 miles is too far away when my heart cannot stretch that far without falling apart. I can feel my body slip into survival mode shielding itself from something that could **** more than a physical threat. I want to cling my anxious onto you sew myself to the back of your shirt Search your vertebrae like it's the answer to why I can't breathe at a steady pace when I can't hold you for a second longer Why someone so medicinal to my wounds would be taken away quicker than I was ever able to take them all in. I'm trying to bottle it all up but all you can do is shake. I know you say you only want the best but empty bottles like me were never meant to be opened. You were the only one with hands strong enough to do it.