an ode to the loveless, these are for you.

chocolate milk still tastes like your lips

sometimes it still hurts.
i'll listen to "fairytale" by milky chance and remember the 8 hour drive down to the outer banks and remember how you slept the whole time and i stayed awake and admired how peaceful you looked.
i'll remember how me and your younger cousin took pictures under the water of the pool with the water proof camera and made silly faces,
or just how the whole trip was absolute bliss.
and it will continue to hurt.
but it hurts less and less everyday,
i'll go weeks without being affected but sometimes days are harder than others.
as i continue to go on i hurt less often and i know i'm almost healed.
i hope you are too.