Searing tears,
Rubbing-sore hands,
Pounding drum headache,
Red eyes,
Lips and cheeks inflamed.
The embers burn,
Laying forgotten amongst
Dull gray ashes.
Shimmering smoke
Leaches away tenderness,
And slowly,
Oh so slowly,
Steal my soul as it rises.

Tell me
Why, one day I'm yours, I call you mine
The next we're nothing and you're cheery ******* fine
While I question the enormity of what I just gave you, how it meant so little
Feels like my insides are dragging behind me, a newly formed hole in the ozone sphere of my life
There's pieces of you, dotting my space
I hold back that need, want to beg, chase, convince you
Come back to me
I was talking decades and centuries, now all I hear is maybes
I was in such depths,
You were barely in the shallows