Screaming Infidelities

These things are holding you down

things inside your closet drowning you now.

Sleepless nights, every memory

of you and me our wordless vows,

Wake and break you, thought you could escape.

Screaming infidelities inside your head

taking every bit of sanity away

Tossing and turning in this empty bed

Wishing I was with you instead.

Little voices cursing, screaming your name

Mental images of you and me

I could not escape

the thought, the memory

The feeling now living inside me.

Your scent lingering in my head.

Bringing back crumpled sheets beneath us

those wordless breaths that heat us

through and through.

You were strong and I, weak.

Knew all these would come and go.

Now shadows of footsteps and silhouettes

Reminders of when the heart was bleak.

And your voice though distant

kept calling my name

And no, I could not escape you,

I have no shame.

And your voice though distant,

seemed so loud

Your breath warm against my skin.

And no, I would not escape you.

The thought, the mem'ry,

The feeling now living inside me.

[ Wrote this on an earlier date.-Kimj]