Quietly

Failed beauty, burning star

You are similar to the sun, beautiful and warm

Looking at you hurts me, but I cannot look away

I cannot look away, or stray, this pain 

I love you each time you hurt me

I miss you each time you leave

Your arms are constellations, and blood is on your sleeve.

You, precious treasure

Replaceable is I, you are a secret garden

A reproachable goodbye

I knew loving you would hurt me, I knew it couldn’t have worked out 

But loving you has taught me, something I couldn’t live without 

A lesson that came with whipping, scars that tell the words ‘advice’

While you forget I ever loved you, I wrote a song for you tonight 

When everything is falling, when tears will blur my eyes 

When voices crack like heartache, when mouths taste like the sea

This is how you’ll remember, how you’ll remember me

As the broken best friend who loves you, and won’t ever say they did not 

No taking back the past now, another lesson I was taught 

What hurts me most is not the romance, or the loss of what could have been 

What stabs me every day and evening, what burrowed it’s way within

The fact that you no longer need me, the way you took back all your time 

The hours we spent talking, and the silence on the line

The death of a Deep friendship, broke my smile and my laugh 

The idea that you don’t love me, simply as a friend 

Kills me softly

Quietly

And takes away all my  breath.