Soulmates

These lies will cut you open.

I will lay between your ribs

somewhere between loving you

and wishing that I never did.

Time for us moves slowly

when we choose this awful path

to make ourselves so small and crawl in

a hole we pretend is our other half.

Every word that I have spoken

is shattered glass upon my lips,

the remains of who I used to be

are now daggers in my hips

Every time I thought of no difference

between where I end and you begin

is another year spent pulling the remnants

of you from beneath my skin.

Cover me in your deception

as I lay here on your sheets

I will pretend my heart isn't hungry

for something other than what it eats

We can be here in this room

but know that when we are old and grey

we will still want for the parts of ourselves

that never got to stay.