photographs

three

i'm never gonna wait

that extra twenty minutes for you to text back,

and i'm never gonna play

hard to get

when i know your life has already been hard enough.

it's hard to watch

the game we made out of love,

like everyone's playing chess

with their scars,

saying checkmate

whenever they get out

without broken heart.

just to be clear,

i don't want to get out

without a broken heart.

i intend to leave this life

so shattered

there's gonna have to be

a thousand separate heavens

for all of my flying parts