I wanted you to

  stay / on that day when we had no summer rains

  and the night was perfect on that balcony seat

  you stared / into my eyes

  the stars were so bright I almost saw my soul

  devoured / by your gentle touch on a couch

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  morning past three I jumped / into arms so soft

  everything / right was falling

  apart / like two lovers holding pieces

  unshakable remains of dust spilled across

  mountains / who used to be a singular heart beating

  in a world so new / old things don’t matter anymore

  as you wander / alone

  without her / I wonder if you sometimes think of hands twined together

  tomorrow / is a fool to believe we could have been

  better / is a story I like to tell myself

  when no one’s around / to see the blood and peppermint

  in socks I slip into as I go out / at midnight in the Winter

  snow is falling on statues we cherished / before

  I told you farewell in silence / words I didn’t need to say

  “stay.”

  you would have left anyway