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You slipped underneath my eyelids and now every particle of myself draws its lines to you.

Leave me bruised.

I want to love passionately and drink deeply and have you say that I’ll always be enough.

Even as you leave I want

This memory to leave circles over my skin and draw maps through my veins.

I want to hold you even if my fingers aren’t strong enough to hold.

Would it be true

I want to write the word ‘stay’ on your palms, so that everything you touch reminds you of where we’ve been

I want to forget your name.

May the moon draw you closer each month and may the sea one day consume you.

May you taste of salt and other women and may I always remain broken.

May the city that you know never change

May it whisper the same words to you each night, I hope you never escape.

And when the whispers of the ocean call to you,

I hope the tongue inside your mouth dries to dust

I hope her love will never be enough

I want to fade into nothing, to be as transparent as the stars

So that one day you may see me

I want to forget you
The way a prison cell forgets the time

The way time forgets the dead

The way the dead forget the living

And I want to know that each time I breathe, I no longer need you to hold my lungs.

I want to be enveloped by the sea, and chase the moon

And go ever onwards north.

I want to fall at the feet of some mountain

Who will never love me the same way

But I will curl at his feet and relish the cold

May the birds forget your name.