Everything I Am Not

i am warming the place

that you are saving for another

i am tangled in the sheets

in the bed where she will sleep

she will be all that i am not

giving you all that you want

in a future not meant for us

i am wrapped up in your arms

breathing in your scent

drunk on your aroma

all the while knowing

that this is all that i will get

and nothing more

i fill the cold space in the dead of night

i soothe the loneliness

that was suffocating you

i am just enough to quell the unease

to give you hope for someone more

more than me

she will be everything you want

everything i am not