Monday, March 9, 2026

shame on you (Discontinued scent)

Tell me about the shame 
Is it heavy 
Does it press you down 
Render you emotionless 
A lone cold cube in a beverage
A shapeless stranger in a dive bar
Rubbing his fingers together
While eating an appetizer
Lighting his smokes far too long 
Looking at me with that stoic peripheral Stare
How it makes me laugh 
The joke we turned out to be 
Your worst delivery yet
This even tops the leek 
I warm myself by burning our dreams 
In the spot we lived 
The shadows we used to inhabit 
Every word you spit with love
Every gift of expansion
that somehow made you smaller 
Every lie wearing gold 
As a distraction
Bet you hoped with all you had 
That I wouldn't see your true form 
Do you try to snap me back
Do you look for angel numbers 
Do you remember my smell 
As hard as you try 
To deny
The pillow is sniffed dry
And there are no more 
replacements
This sad pathetic truth 
We had it all wrong 
It was actually that 
I was never your person 
And you knew all along 

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