noun ;
You thought
you've burned
all remembrance of what was -
from his varsity jacket with that
number you've grown quite attached to,
and the stolen photographs of him sleeping,
to the teddy bear he won for you at a school fair
and his old test papers mixed in with his love letters.
You watched as the ashes dance
in the rhythm of your unsteady heartbeats,
caressing the soft skin on your wrist
from where his bite marks used to be,
thinking you couldn't burn your skin,
all the places his touch reached,
how wrong you were,
this wasn't the end.
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Chasing Imi
شِعرThis is not a story. This is a chase. A chase for meaning. There is approximately 1,025,109.8 words in the English language. Some words have been taken for granted too many times, some are swallowed on daily basis, resting inside our bellies, and so...
