Drear Love

you entered like a thunderstorm  

wild winds clawing at my edges  

the crash of you shook my ribs  

your laughter became my anthem  

soft and sharp in the same breath  

you left fingerprints on my pulse  

electrifying like a spark at dawn  

you burned until i fractured wide  

and swallowed all the light whole  

i called it love, this breaking  

dancing on the thin line of ruin  

but your absence feels like acid  

drear love, heavy as forgotten rain  

you still echo beneath my skin  

a ghost i am too proud to bury