For You, Everything Is Always For
You
I.
the only time you manage pretend
not to love me
and convince anyone
is when i'm not talking to you.
II.
you get so close i can feel
the crack in my wall growing
it reaches out
looking like a cobweb
but i am a handy repairman,
and i cement the crack shut before
you force it to grow any bigger.
III.
you must keep my secrets
you know hidden somewhere in
your ribcage,
next to your heart
between your lung
close enough to know it's there
far enough to pretend you don't care
that you keep these
secrets
petals
fragments
ashes
of me inside of you.
IV.
maybe if i
paint over you with poetry,
these
pieces of art will fill up the hole
you take up
the hole you've filled
(not wholly
only partially,
just enough
for
me to
notice.)
every day
for four f ♥ cking years
maybe if i paint over you with poetry,
i'll finally forget you
"I have noticed the way you
still look at me and I wish you would quit
looking."
