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Fluent

I’ve become

fluent in the silence

that comes

before the storm

Tip

I still taste your name

on the tip of my tongue

each time

I speak of love

Look

I craved your gaze so deeply

that I pulled myself apart

showering you

in the pieces of me

like a rose

petal by petal

just to piece myself back together

in the image

of the man

I thought you wanted

to see

Thread

You loved me as a needle

runs a thread

through the torn and worn

so deep did you puncture

so long did you run

until the tapestry of my being

was more you than me

Departure

Departure was etched into your flesh.

long before I’d met you

you’d set a collision course with ruin.

How it broke me

to realize

our love could only hold you from it

for so long.

Smuggle

We smuggled love on bookmarks

Sting

I hope

the memories of us

sting just enough

for you to remember I mattered

to remember

I loved you

Told

I once asked you not to make me just another one of your sad stories

Now I ache to know I’m still told

Stories

You’re all my favourite stories

that I never tell