The Reminder

You press your lips

To the only reminder

Of the way I smelled in your arms.

As you try to imagine

It’s me instead.

Then you tell them that I miss you;

You think this covers your tracks.

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On agony stricken

Drunken nights,

You fall back so she falls in

Seeking that attention you claim I desire.

.

Cover your tracks with my blood once again

As you press your lips

To the only reminder

Of our life long gone,

Our love unrecoverable.

.

I bet it burns your mind

That you walked away

Instead of waiting out the storm,

Knowing I’d have honored you

More than I did before.

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What could have been? We’ll never know

So you light another reminder

Of the way I smelled

When I held you from behind

For your very first time.

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Oh well.

I think, this time,

It's best not to know.