"Lesser Than Or Equal To"

You're itchy skin
that I want to scratch
until there's no more flesh to be itchy.
You're a cavity
I want to fill.
A rotting root
to a dying tree in my mouth
that I want to yank out.
You're the trigger
I want to pull
to a bullet
that will only go
halfway through my forehead.

We are the tree that fell in the woods without anyone to hear it.

You're sun I'm staring at
even though it burns my eyes.
You're loose eye lashes
caught in my eye
and food caught
in the back of my throat.
You're a downhill bike ride
with a flat tire and no brakes
through a red light.

We are a halfway decent story never committed to paper.

You're the bandage
that hurts more to rip off
than the wound did in the first place.
You're the high fructose corn syrup
in every beverage I enjoy.
You're every single
sentence, conversation, story,
project, book, movie, goal
that I started but never finished.

We aren't anything at all anymore.
We are much as nothing can possibly be.














(Dedicate to the girl that got away.)
<3