That night at your house
I turned the light back on
I’m not sure what I saw
Were you scared of us breaking up again?
Were you bored of monogamy yet again, even just an hour back into it?
Were you imagining someone else in my place?
We were both nude
You on the bed, sitting up, looking at me
My hand still on the switch, standing at the door, looking at you
I put my clothes back on
“I’ll be back, I’m gonna get the lube”
You looked at my phone
The screen was on, playing atlas sound off youtube
“Okay”
I went to the car
I came back through the front door
I heard silence
I walked quietly into the hallway
I heard the music again
I walked in the room
I heard music and your silence
I felt the gravity in the room
I knew exactly what I saw when I turned on the light earlier
My phone was flipped over, in a different spot.
You saw my messages, the way I really felt.
“I wish we spent Christmas together”
I saw loneliness, things we didn’t experience together, sex with strangers, holiday wishes we didn’t bond over, bridges we didn’t cross
It was traces of everything pouring out of you, lit up like sad flickering christmas lights
Your grindr notification went off
I looked at you
I turned the light off
You poured into me in the dark
Multi colored liquids lining my small intestines like LED rainbows
Temporary decorations
I knew it’d be the last time