Necromancy

1.

When the corner of his mouth turns up like the breaking of a wave, don’t translate your racing heartbeats to mean you are in love. The thudding sound that echoes from your chest is a war cry - a warning being screamed at you the only way your body knows how.

2.

When his hand collides with your skin and your breaths leave you like your past lovers, move his hand away and don’t daydream about it later.

3.

He will hand you distance like it is a bouquet of flowers and you will accept it like it is the invitation to a funeral of someone you can reincarnate. You cannot raise the dead darling. You cannot keep him breathing.

4.

He is already empty.