I told myself I was done making poems out of people It is comparatively easier to erase words than a soul from my memory people aren't poems poetry is a flame a fire doesn't pick and choose what it engulfs it is both violently dangerous and entirely free and under the influence of your gaze I've set ablaze an entire library do you think books have emotion? do words feel the pain? there is a ghost of you following me and I've been trying to capture the sound of your voice in clicks of a keyboard I tried press the pen close to the paper like your fingers on my back on those long nights now mine are blistered and I've replaced the memories with ash piles on my book shelves