remnants of smoke still
drifting out of my ears but
even the beautiful spirals
can't push away the images
of you dancing naked in my
closet or snatching the last
bit of jelly donut even though
you don't even like jam you
were always taking the bits
of me that i wanted most and
all that's left now are the vestiges
of an empty shell how cliche,
how mediocre is it that you're
gone and i'm left here wrapped in
your flannel smoking the very stuff
i swore would **** you but you
managed to do that first didn't
you i always let you take those
bits of me that mattered most
because i looked at you
and all i could see within the
fractured hull that was your skin
was darkness but i could tell you
were building a whole person
deep in there with my scraps
i could hear the echoes of a scream
that wasn't yours but i didn't realize
until i got the call last tuesday that i
could wail in the exact tone and
frequency of those echoes funny
how grief works, you were dying
the whole time and i didn't even
notice you were fading, but now
that you're gone i can't get you
out of my head
Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 8:32 AM UTC
remnants of smoke still
drifting out of my ears but
even the beautiful spirals
can't push away the images
of you dancing naked in my
closet or snatching the last
bit of jelly donut even though
you don't even like jam you
were always taking the bits
of me that i wanted most and
all that's left now are the vestiges
of an empty shell how cliche,
how mediocre is it that you're
gone and i'm left here wrapped in
your flannel smoking the very stuff
i swore would **** you but you
managed to do that first didn't
you i always let you take those
bits of me that mattered most
because i looked at you
and all i could see within the
fractured hull that was your skin
was darkness but i could tell you
were building a whole person
deep in there with my scraps
i could hear the echoes of a scream
that wasn't yours but i didn't realize
until i got the call last tuesday that i
could wail in the exact tone and
frequency of those echoes funny
how grief works, you were dying
the whole time and i didn't even
notice you were fading, but now
that you're gone i can't get you
out of my head
