step by step
we match each other’s stride
there will be no chasing here
i’ve done all my running
and my legs are tired
i collapsed into your arms
your bed
your heart
and you let me
you held me
when i fell apart
there’s never been a “will they won’t they?”
it’s always been a “yes”
no mirrors or smoke
or jumping through hoops
just
my safety net
in the storms of all my heartbreaks
in my cloudy sky
you’re blue
it’s not what i was running from
but you
i was running to.
i chased you
in a toxic bid to feel better
i chased you
but to you
i was just an escape route
a getaway driver
a one way ticket
when i had counted on a return journey
and that’s how you left me
once you’d got what you needed
where you wanted
in those muggy streets
that, oh, should’ve been mine
alone
you rode my high
let my waves carry you
further than you’d ever been
don’t chase after things you don’t need
in hopes you’ll feel something you don’t want to feel
because i guarantee you
you will.
aching, the
body can feel it, the
crushing weight of your absence.
drought for the soul.
everything is
fine, i’ll say, i’m doing
good
how have you been?
i‘ll ask you
just to start a conversation. it’s more than
kind of sad, that we’ve gone from
lovers, to
messed up, to almost
nothing.
only we knew what we had, a
patient love, that grew
quietly, over time, like the confluence of two
rivers coalescing. they
say
time changes people, but i didn’t think it would change the course of
us, and now here i sit, staring
vacantly at the blank
wall, i’ll still finish my messages with an
x
you don’t. you’ve already
zoned out.
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