The memories waste themselves out in bar rooms with pretty blondes
And you forget the way my fingers felt around you
The way my lips pressed to your chest
The nights we spent memorizing love letters just to rip them up in the wine to ease the bite of longing in the shattering of glass
I’ve seen the ending before.
In a wanting and desperate daydream of our futures intertwined and our children playing in the front yard of our house
We will never share a house but we once shared everything.
And we never will have children, which frees you but in return maims me
My ability to love wholeheartedly will dissipate in the snow
We will part in the night like the perfect goodbye spoken a moment too soon.
But I will remember the way your body fit into mine
The way your lips spoke my name from a far away room.