cancelled

you have grown beneath
the cells of my skin
I have learned to be invulnerable
and bottle us up like a
vintage wine

it is taking too long to
imagine
we are not real
but my cheek remembers
how your goodbye was
whispered into my skin

and I dreamed you were
with me
but now that memory
is erased
cancelled
lost so delicately

Temporary Skylines

temporary positions
temporary elation
temporary skies
that choose to cry

temporary happy
selling stories
who will buy
these tortured souls
on pretty paper
shallow alibies

temporary sensitivity
nurse another aching
lie
cause being sober is
an addiction too you say
being averse to being high

temporary angels
temporary lives
temporary suffering
excusing wrong
can't dignify
our temporary skylines