Day 710: physics

3 things i know to be true

1.
on the mornings i awake without the feeling of your breath on my skin
something about my body breaks
today
is was skeleton
fractured into a thousand pieces
every part of me forgot the texture of your promises
there are parts of this body you tricked out of breathing
some mornings
i resent you for it
others
i only cry

2.
the distance we've managed to force between our bodies
is not a measure of the strength of our love
rather
a measure of what we are willing to put each other through
to have what we want

3.
there is nothing beautiful about a broken heart
strung across a clothes line
nothing magical about the way you say goodbye
nothing about this sings me to sleep
nothing about you knows how to hold me from where you are
nothing here is forever

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we made promises that tried to defy the laws of physics
but every morning that i wake up
and cannot fly
is one day closer to realizing
forever
may
not
exist

this may be as good as it gets