Pixielisje

you are smoke, blackened feathers, and I forget how the mockingbird used to sing. please, I forget how to miss someone. you left warm spots in me, familiar dents and puckers now empty. nothing holds my eyes in place. they roll from one end of my skull to the other, rattling. I don't want to see a world without you in it. you let this place hollow out and dry like infinite droughts. you let me burn. the years age me, and I don't know who I am anymore. I only remember you, but I forget that you are gone.