I liked when you started running
Cast aside the blankets and iv wires
And fleeing down the road
As dark began to sleep
I liked the sudden creativity
Where you burnt faces into caskets
And inscribed each
With an obituary of crow feathers
I even liked the space you gifted me
As we, two lovers, drifted in orbit
Around the unnamed
Like asteroids destined for calamity
But I see her walking where I walked now
I knew her name once,
The taste of it on my licorice tongue
As my arms bend into my skull to scoop out the meaning
And hurt
Her shoulders were thin where mine were broad
Her hands petite where mine calloused
Her shoes stilletos where mine steel toes
The dance of comparison that everybody else knows
Tell me that you love me
And mean it, once and forever
Tell me I wasn\'t wrong,
And leave it alone like you left me
Tell me that you love me
The finger on the pulse of my heartbeat
Tell me I was wrong,
And you never could have loved me