Why don’t you just
step outside –
I’ve been waiting all night, tonight
and through all those
sweaty summer nights
feels like you’re
a product of my imagination,
these days
feels like you’re
a ghostly love
so palpable at night,
but you fade by daylight
you’re a ghoulish love
you float through
these walls I built
to save myself
yet here we are,
together within whatever this is
trapped in these sheets
of this faithless marital bed
will you stay, will you fade
or will I move forwards?
// free gaslights to light the way //
should I Ouija board it?
am I stuck with you now?
where the hell am I
why are we here?
my heart strings
are tighter than they’ve
ever been,
will they sing
or will they snap?
Written July 15, 2021