Dead And Gone

You left your paint stains

on my sill when you fled

Now it's all that remains

it erodes in my head

The wind blows it around

spattering the words that you said

I'm at its mercy

as the remnants descend

I wrote down my feelings

trying to release any hope

I signed and I sealed it

in an old envelope

I made my way to the store

to purchase some soap

Grabbed a stamp from the drawer

the punchline to this joke

Threw it into the mailbox

for the postman to gather

put an end to this paradox

and this time, it's forever

I power washed any sign

that you were ever around

reclaimed what was mine

scraped it onto the ground

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