bloodstream

you sung me your twinges

swirling in the empty room

echoing like ripples on a pond

finally settling beneath my bones

hazy heads and heavy eyelids 

our high lingered as you held me 

along speed bumps and red lights

i think i might have inhaled you

crushed powder alongside bells

the hardest part was saying no

with a simple rush and a push

the world became ours at once

thin fingers and blue veins

violins creak in the spaces between us

shaky hands on ivory keys

i only wanted to be haunted by you

things unspoken break us if we choose

the little cracks escalated 

with our late night swing set talks

your subtle squeezes in cafe mozart

i held the winning cards for a year

but each day was the wrong time

today, i played them too late

and now you’re gone

Reviews

[Chris]

Quite an ending... unexpected