You are all collar bones
and hard ridges
With the emotional maturity
of a callous crow,
Chipping away at my jaded memories
All those blazing kisses
And neck grabs
And sweltering declarations of love
Meant absolutely nothing

Your hollow words were kinder to me
Than your dirty deception,
You seemed to have
wormed your way
Into my delirious heart,
A compulsive optimist
even in the face of inky darkness,
Painting the night sky
with bitter deja vu

You said you couldn't feel anything
Even as you kissed my tears away
Even as you listened to my heavy heart,
Beating like a tiny hummingbird
Inside my chest
You said you couldn't feel anything
And I fell for you anyway
Like an autumn leaf
Becoming one
with the cold hard ground