I see your face sometimes when I close my eyes. There’s so few nights when I sleep soundly anymore, surrounded in my thoughts, your face, it burdens me so. Yet your words, your voice, it’s like a broken cassette tape. Endlessly repeating in my ear, offering me some comfort.

I knew you never loved me, yet I can’t deny how much I loved you.

You remind me of a sleeping pill that got stuck in my windpipe. I used to think of you like a cup of tea, warm and stimulating. Now, I know I was just fooling myself. Your poison thrummed through my bloodstream so fast it made me dizzy.

When we finally went our separate ways, I spent months lying awake in my old bed. Never dreaming, just staring at the ceiling. We used to share a pillow, you were a blanket hog. I never could get used to having someone so close to me, but now I can’t get used to being so alone in the dark.