Mourning Skies

How To Destroy Someone

Build them up
As if you are constructing them
Particularly
For you
And you only

Create them to be
Dependent
On your presence every day
Don't show up
Say you're running late
And watch them slowly
Fall apart
Watch their eyes fall
When you do not return their smile
Watch their light dim

Build them up again
Make them believe
You'll never leave

Let them drink their fill
Of the thirst for love
Give them the security
Of knowing
You will never leave

Trace your fingers down their back

Wrap them around your finger

Make them feel
As if they are filled
With the greatest high
Anyone can achieve
Like they are flying away
And you become their muse
Become their reason
To live.

Then one day

Stop

Cut off all communications

Treat ever word
Every "I love you more"
Every sloppy heated kiss
Every hot breath into their neck
Like a lie

Make them doubt themselves
Make them doubt every word
Every lover from now on will say
Make them regret every "I love you"
Make them regret every single breath
Make them contemplate reality

Make them feel alive
And rip it away from them
Plant yourself in their side
Infect them like cancer
And take every part of them
When you leave

Make them question if they're alive
Make them doubt their own heart
Beating in their chest
Make them live on as a ghost

Watch them grasp
For a sense of belonging
Like sand falling helplessly
Between their fingers

Without you
Make them nothing