the lasting goodbye

the strings ring, fast then slow
i remember your fingers on my body

now you sit across from me, playing
your forever love, something new and cleaned.

i don't think i'll ever recover
dunno if i even want to. i'll hold the pillow close

it hasn't hurt me yet. some things i can believe in-
smoke's little bite, feathers are soft except

when they stick in my skin. all the music is yours now
senseless to write lyric, all melody abandon.

new phase. moon out of light. belief
waning and anyway. it is what it is.