if you counted up all the cracks i left in your skin after i forgot to water you for days and days
you would find the numbers stretching into infinity— something past endurance.
you still dig out all the jagged pieces of me left embedded inside your skull
things i didn't mean to leave behind, people i didn't mean to forget.
you carry all my memories in your backpack next to your spine.
even still the tips of your fingers can still trace my piano key ribcage with love
abandoned like madness on the side of the highway, scooped up in line at the grocery store
to you it doesn't matter where it spills out. you just are. love, i mean.
i only ever existed to make you part of me.
you only ever existed to grant me the leave to be myself and still love me for it.
we only ever existed so i could know what it felt like to be someone's oasis,
someone's last desperate pine tree in the middle of a forest no longer there.
so that you could know that craddling someone's soul in your hands was far greater of a justice than a soul ever deserved. than my soul ever deserved.
my sun is a hot one that leaves me an unforgiving wasteland.
i feel drenched in your moonlight that never was meant for me and find my way home anyway.
20/30
prompt from @Quillfeather
prompt from @Quillfeather
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