i let my obsession with myself manifest in you
read meaning into your thoughts and actions
i needed a warm body to project onto
is it not valid if it comes from me?

jealousy refuses to pick up a friend
jealousy is the car keys pitched into the night sky
jealousy is a username and password that aren’t yours

last night I dreamt
on fettered branches
the green edge of your knife
splitting us in two

and your wicked tongue
poked out to taste the salt

how many times
will I scribble these lines
praying for ink to fill the absence?

in the space between us
everything connects me to you
each infinitesimal atom a bridge

the same way
I could feel your skin
and we'd never touch

tossed by the shuddering sea
your white hand slipped from mine

all I have become
ends with a rush in my ears
beneath the watery moon
let my last thoughts be of you