Organic Chemistry, Graduate Edition
Eternal sunshine Scrubbed clean mind I’d forgotten To remember To forget you, human. I always thought you just Beyond (or behind) my reach A path they could never teach To a case like mine, Too guarded, Nope. No time. Me? Just one step from good enough I ran up awkward, winding staircases medieval structures fashioned like torture devices, where you can easily miss a step and scrape your knee. A tower prison where the cursed are locked away With thoughts like these… What I should’ve said, When I saw you again, was please Let me stay and I won’t go up those stairs. The Now I’m living simply isn’t right Neither is yours. If I had Said the words caught in my throat, …Choking on obligation, Time would have solidified Exactly where it should have In our before times The spiced chill I crave would have gently tingled alive, tim...