Reminding Myself To Forget

And so I packed my shittiest shoes and my heaviest woes my ugliest shirt and most dog-eared book. I threw in that scrap of life which you wrote and then I clambered my way up the twilight sky, that inescapable reminder of you, and slashed away the tiniest sliver closest to the corner of your world and farthest away from the center of mine. I stuffed it all in the pillowcase sealed the open end with all that could have been and left it in that hollowed tree that once my heart had resembled.