dead things

When people leave the words you wrote about them stay behind.

Virgil, I still have that poem I wrote about you.

I am not done with you yet.

I never did finish it.

So what do I do with these words?

Do I use them to wipe my mind clean before I go to bed; so that I do not dream about you?

Do I give them to the garbage man?, say "here take these with you, they cannot stay here any longer."

Do I tattoo them onto my chest as some sort of museum for people to see? Call it "before you left."

How about this:

I will give them to the graveyard you left me for.