Ghosts He Buried

We smile when we see someone smile

We yawn when we see someone yawn

We walk in step with each other

And our hearts beat in sync when we’re close

When you love the right person, they can’t help but love you back too

My visage is trapped in the cracks

Who I was lies in glass dust

Not for love for myself

But because you loved me

More than I ever could.

My soul is in agony;

And how much you deserve,

And how happy I am around you.

I know you get uncomfortable sometimes,

But it’s a good thing for you to realize

That this is the baseline of what should happen

When people really care for you.

But neither can you

I sing in the shower

And dance in the kitchen

I told you:

“You’ll hear one day”

And you replied:

I thought it was this Earth

I was wrong, I am here but

Their blood stains my hands

I held their final breaths in my palms

You fell gently from above onto me,

As fresh as the morning breeze.

I held you in my verdant embrace.

You could not stay;

You have returned to the sky.

In my autumn grief I fall from the tree,

Withered on the ground.

One day, will you come down

And kiss me again?

The sun that burned me

I see his hair, his smile

I hear his words over theirs.

My eyes are full of reminders of him,