You slithered away and
a shadow slipped out of my skin.
What I had collected of you
disappeared, leaving
a rift in my chest and
arrested, held hostage
the hopes
pinned into my heart
that I kept of you and I.

I can feel that
you left
in my bones,
in my muscles
in my skin
every memory sends shivers
If only I could tear it all open
to let out the vibrations
free myself from these
sensations of loss
and convulsions
of emptiness
without you.

Once
you made everything
better but now you’ve gone
and torn away the happy.
You made it all hurt.
You ripped me apart
from the bottom up.
You left a rift in my chest
as your shadow
slipped out of my skin
and you slithered away.

― I wish you could hear my heart as it skips the beats you once filled.