Sooner or Later

Let me sleep forever In the cracks between your thoughts Always unconsciously thinking of me The deeper the sleep The harder it is to remember what I look like What I smell like How my hands felt gripped around your neck Finding old photos of me Was worse than listening to the recordings I sent An army of rancid raccoons Reminded you of the makeup I used to cake onto my face Now it's a clean slate Hollowed out eyes and high cheek bones The pale of my skin clenching to the layers of muscle underneath Sooner or later You start to forget me entirely The only thing bringing me back Is the songs And novels And movies That we used to indulge ourselves in And lock the doors from the inside So no one could join us They wouldn't understand you say No one would understand You've forgotten what my voice sounds like Never again will you hear the soft low hum Of the voice I used when I was seconds from sleep You will never feel my lips pressed against yours Starving for something I can't give Because who kisses a corpse