Kairos

You deserve to be more than medicine for someone’s loneliness.

Fuck you and your expectations What did you ever want from me? Love? I told you I didn’t have any to give I don’t know how to anymore And just because you were too weak To accept that I can’t love you Doesn’t make me the villain. So fuck you, buddy. I may have been the one that didn’t say I love you But you’re the one That broke my heart.

I’m in love with an impossible future.

You know me, in love with everything that hurts me the most.

But, baby, it’s okay if you have a black hole instead of a heart. It means you hold galaxies within.

I kissed the sun, but lost daylight to your eyes, I memorized the outline of your shadow, but lost immunity to growth - everything keeps changing, but nothing feels different - like the way I’ll always answer

I miss you in ways I shouldn’t - in whispers writing deadlines across air tight hugs & silence vacuuming the probable cause of all my faults into every gaze I place the stars; some days I talk to windows like you can hear me, some days I plant flowers in places the sun has yet to visit & wonder how long beauty can curve a smile that was never there. its taken me years to learn how to love, but I still haven’t learned

You’ll fall out of love just as quickly as you fell in love with me.

After that night when everything seemed perfect, I woke up with a bloody mouth and nightmares I couldn’t remember spilled down my shirt. When I looked down at my body  my rib cage had been cracked open and there was a field of wildflowers  blooming, petals love slick  and your hands were pulling away  with a bouquet  that I don’t recall giving you permission to pick.

I handed you my heart as if it were a white flag,  Surrendering to everything I was tired of dying for.

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