it feels like a glitch
somewhere deep in your heart.

it feels like your very existence
should be jaggedly sputtering into nothing.

it feels like the world
should be empty.
it feels like the sky
should be eternally dark.

it feels like my heart
has been frozen inside my chest.

it feels like falling
with no promise of a landing.
it feels like an abyss
that's found a home inside me.

it feels like spending a thousand lifetimes
without ever knowing you.

it feels like a glitch
in whatever system was so cruel as to make you hate me.