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I can’t tell you how much I miss you without tearing a few pages from your rib.
(And) you move as if all your life you have lived by water.
For me Goodbye has never meant the end.
Who will stitch my soul together?
Since the day you left Since the day you left me I waged war to stop the unholy yearning for you. I avoided you, fearing I might become a wild dog. I waited for the day I’d stop caring about you. Waiting for the midnight I realize today I never wanted to pick up the phone and tell you about the funny thing I saw or about how busy and trying my day was. I waited to no longer see your face in crowded streets. But when I last saw your sister, she kissed her teeth at me, just like you did. It splintered my heart. She said I wear my silence with too much pride. Pride? As if I don’t constantly
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The morning I forgot about you I woke with your heart in my mouth. Your name slipping from my mind and pouring out of my hands.
Saudade The homes away from home are never home enough.
