I will sleep with
my eyes o p e n .
I will breathe u n d e r w a t e r .
I will drink my coffee c o l d if that is
what it takes to become less like y o u .
The thought of being like you is so p a i n f u l , I'd
rather d r o w n .
Loving you is the most painful memory-I'd rather
p e e l off my skin in the places you left your kisses. The places
you bit and licked and left your
l o v e .
Some say, "it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
I cannot bring myself to agree with such words, because the pain of loosing you
was far too much to bear than the idea of never having known you.
Call me a ******* coward for running away from this pain,
but if I have to face it another day,
I would rather
d i e.
This poem was written in 2016.