How do you forget someone who is a part of your soul?

Do you drown yourself in liquor and hope it drowns out his voice in your mind?

Do you scrub your skin raw and hope to get rid of the surface that he has once touched?

Do you try to feel nothing and hope it numbs the pain of losing him?

Do you try to forget and hope that you never see him again?

I have been trying for so many years

And still you remain there

Untouched like the shirt you left behind

Completely still and seemingly lifeless

Yet it lives inside of me