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there is a piece of you

that wont go away

cuz i wont let it.

i write your name

in my sleep

so i wont forget it.

take away the the air that you displace.

Watch me paint a wall a thousand colors 

every coat i try to trace the way it felt to wear your clothes.

lay underneath your breath.

to wash you.

But There was space

inside our bodies, a hollow trap.

Felt thick and brittle, the leaves of Fall--

a shadowed lung would pull, 

I'd turn and hug the wall.

I hoped in both my hands

up to the ceiling like a prayer.

through the crickets, came a thought

that to this morning makes me cry.

I know you heard it too.

"it can't last forever

this syrup love.

the way i meld 

to only her surrender and give

in."

"No, it can't last forever

this simple truth.

The way he carries me to dream.

A wooden raft soaked up in sun." 

___________

The stars from here still look the same

I Raced the dawn to write your name.

To feel the breath of 21

float down a river soaked in sun

Remember speaking somehow new

I inhale love

and breathe out you.