In the misty mornings of March I see the taillights of your car as you leave my life. The water in the air makes the light all smothered, or maybe itās just the tears welling in my bloodshot eyes. You brought my clothes back from your room where we first kissed and they smell like you. I throw them in the washer and forget to start it, distracted by lāapell du vide. I sit on my creaky bed where I used to hold you in my shaky hands, the bed where I first learned what your love tasted like, where your hands first felt my skin. Like a moth to a flame, I look at all the pictures of you on my walls, my dresser, my nightstand, I look at all the art we made together, and I break down again, thatās the third, maybe fourth time today. In the humid days of June, I still miss you, but usually itās less. I havenāt loved ever since then. I sit down in the shower and let the hot water pelt my body, I feel my thoughts start to race so I turn up the music. Mouthing the words I keep myself preoccupied from thinking of you. On a particularly rainy day in September I remember when we held hands and spun and danced when it was raining. I didnāt wanna get wet but you insisted and now thatās one of my most cherished memories, weird how that works isnāt it? Weird how much I didnāt want to go outside, but when I saw the joy on your face I couldnāt have been happier to share that moment with you. In a frost laden winter, when I donāt know the date, I drown my sorrows in alcohol, I do whatever I can to make the memories wash away. On February twelfth, I slit my wrist for the first time, and as I watch the blood trickle from the cut, I think of that misty day in March, itās almost been a year. A year, 365 days, 12 full months. I use the razor to try and cut away all the strings that attach me to you. If I couldāve stopped I wouldāve, but these days I donāt really have control. On a misty day in March my body finally gave in, I got rushed to an ER, and when I made a āmiraculousā recovery I was put in a psych ward, doesnāt feel very miraculous. Next March Iāll forget about you, Iāll engorge myself in somebody elseās love. Next March I wonāt be so lost, next March the mist will clear.