Day: Oct 9, 2020

You’re there all of a sudden and I freeze –

Is this another daydream of mine?

Are you too real to shake the disease?

Blue shirt and vaporized sweat.

I know I can’t close my eyes

Because each promise is also a threat.

I’d rather break watching you leave

Than fall apart days later

Melting my kneeling heart into steel.

Satin skin next to my cold feet

I can’t make myself look away

So I watch you go, accepting defeat.

Burgundy boots, red broken dreams.

Take it for what it is, take it.

The bigger the wound, the faster it heals.

And you’re gone with the first autumn winds.

I can’t remember if any of it happened

But I can tell it was real.

My chest still bleeds red and it tints.