i dig and dig into the concave space in your chest searching for comfort in the warm dark hollows of where your heart used to be. i dig and dig in search of what used to be, i settle in and mark my place- then sleep and sleep for days.
half way through and iced coffee that i've been nursing for an hour and my eyes just wont stay open. i have lost all power. i know you want me to eat when i get home but even my stomach is beat.
it's only a twin bed but the space you've created has gotten to my head. this void doesn't seem empty, the smell is all that kept me; It lingers in the linens like the comfort place we've been in and the void is pushing on my back-- begging my eyes to welcome the black. it feels a world of warmth cooler without you. i feel too much to sleep without