why am i the thing that
doesn’t get gone.
that holds feverishly
onto                 space

yearning for you
                apathy
                & all you are.
hollow         boy (man)

quick to tell me you love
me,                     quick to
leave a nest i built for
    us,                 for you

i’m nothing                 to
you now.                 dead
gone,                 a whisper
    long nightmare

i feel like a cold corpse
    trying to
        haunt you. but i know you
shallow         boy (man)

bet you’ve lost my
name                                 & face
like we                     never
                even                                 met