Wolves

I am down to looking at your profile every other day on a good week, Maybe once daily in a bad one (But it’s probably more) In the moments I miss you most, I hope for your safe passage to every iteration of who you will become In the moments I hate you most for leaving me, I choose to simply understand why I have bought into the lie Signed and sealed The nothing lie, the one sold to women like me by men like him I am nothing Nothing I do matters There is nothing that could be better for me than him (When I know the best is always you) The swamp is dry and cool and I lay on rotted moss, Grabbing at it until it becomes dust, a handshake with the inevitable, Waiting for the river to rise, So that the rocks in my pocket are claimed by the wolf again Where freedom might be... a darkness where your face, Mouth, and embrace can’t be remembered.