Sometimes, I miss you.
When it’s late at night and the lights are low and the world has somehow pressed the mute button on itself, it seems that that is when the thoughts of you are loudest.
They scream their way into my brain and I get lost in their reverberations.
Bouncing from side to side, vibrating and multiplying, crowding out any extra space.
They eat at my mind, destroying any single thought in my head that is not of you.
But that is only…
Sometimes, I’m still in love with you.
When the sun is shining its brightest and dances around me, and you’re standing next to me on the edge of the world and the only thing that separates us is a cloud of smoke and wavering inhibitions.
But that is only…
Sometimes, I think you’re still here.
When the scent of the ocean, or the flowers, or the whiskey is just right and there is nothing for me to do except close my eyes and breathe you in and get lost in your ghost. When the cold wall against my back begins to feel like your arms and my pillow beats just like your chest.
But that is only…
Sometimes, I pretend it’s the future.
When you realize you never stopped loving me, and the aching in your chest grows sharp enough that it carves its own creator’s name into your bones, and it’s me, and the thoughts get too chaotic and the sun is shining way too perfectly, and your entire world smells like my memory and you imagine you’re holding me instead of lying in your bed alone.
But that is only…