when someone you love leaves you

nothing keeps warm
something always gives
before the blood reclaims
your skin, tears won't wait,
you think you're just alive
trains don't stop for you,
airplanes fly away,
goodbye is the only word,
you can't say outright,
but love won't keep you
warm tonight, and sex
is a brutal ecstasy you do
to your body; you are not
happy, the discontentment
is so unreal, the agony
before you could protest
your death, there isn't
protesting death, only life
there's only your life
in the balance of alone