Crestfallen
Contrive a potion that will
make your atoms disintegrate.
Disappear.
Now,
reappear, and
tell me one, two, three, four
more times to understand you
when I did dig down into the black hole
of your chest but
I found no treasure,
no trunk of jewels hidden away
begging to be coerced into the state of open
so I jumped off the aerial cloud that is your ego
and I
d
r
o
p
p
e
d
so very low that Hades himself sucked away
the nine drops of poison you dripped
into my bloodstream
The calamity of your existence is smothering, leaving me
gasping for oxygen laced with
snow angels on concrete streets and
to be completely candid, you
never did a damn thing for me
so I vow to live freely starting
now.
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