Dark and hollow,
She presses keys
Up and down to fill the spaces
between the pauses
Reverb fills her lungs
and she gasps,
A second to jump outside of the skin
choking her in slow-motion,
And another
To fix her shadow
permanently beside her
I was only trying
to let you
see
The trail I dropped behind
me
Nuts and seeds
to nourish you
On your journey over here
But she’s all that I got
Treble clefts and staccato notes
tighten around my neck
To numb the absence of you
I come to,
To find my fingers laces around her knuckles,
My lips to her ears, breathing breaths
to collect and amass, so as to sink below
so she could rise up
And so I could
continue disappearing
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