Gone are the flowers your winter buried

Your mind was blue, my vision blurry

Its final breath fogged the looking glass

Darling we’re dead, so what’s the hurry?

 

Did your love hail from a place of faith?

Mine was a blossom rooted in blunder

Your wind tried to carry my leaden weights

As my every little storm swept us under

 

I was sure you’d only tolerate me,

I couldn’t seem to shake the feeling

I wondered how people fall in love

After they’ve fallen to disbelieving

 

You know I think it’s something strange

You don’t rescind love you give away

Shattered my world with every change

By keeping each promise you ever made

 

I made a show of the shine in my scars

The proof of every crestfallen defeat

Isn’t a heart beautiful when left ajar?

Vacant, inviting, and knows that you’ll leave

 

And what of you, how you set me aflame?

With the beating heart of your light displays

Volatile sparks on the concrete lanes

I felt them every time you said my name

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I’d seen it coming and knew I’d go

Prepared an elegy both sweet and bitter,

But when I said I’d take a bullet for you

I never imagined you behind the trigger

 

You hit my heart racing and left that day

As I longed for my previous naïveté

Before the world had become so heavy,

‘Cause nothing about me made you stay.

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— 01/13/22