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You’re Missing in Action
A Poem
did you ever care,
or was that just my
delusion?
did you ever burn,
or was that just my
ego?
i tell myself you were mine,
once upon a time,
in some story long ago.
i remember long nights
when you haunted my dreams
as if you were a ghost after my heart.
but those days are gone
because you’re just that gleam
buried deep in my gaze, never to return.
did you ever love me,
or did i imagine that too
against a hallucination of stars?
did you ever think about me
on midnight trips to the liquor store
before you drowned all your sorrows?
i could have run for my life,
but i still wouldn’t have been fast enough
to escape you and your marvels and your heat.
i could have burned the forest —
all those wayward paths and trails,
those places we roamed in our better days.
