Exhale
I miss you
like the breath I can’t seem to catch since that night you
fell away.
My chest caves
under the weight of your absence,
heaving for reprieve.
I feel I exist in stunted gasps,
trying to hold on
to the life you
infused in me.
Though enough to sustain
the halted, shallow rhythm of surviving,
I am suffocated
Knowing I will never draw you in again.
Instead, I fade,
slowly,
leaking through this gaping hole you have left behind.
A black hole of broken dreams,
As void of life as you have become.
Where once you rushed in
like oxygen,
igniting a brilliant flame
All that is left are the chars,
the scars,
and air.
