I was never really good at

Telling you

What was on my mind

And I don’t think you were really

Ready for that either

Here it goes:

Somehow

You meant more to me

Almost instantly

Than people I’d tried for years

To keep around

And I guess I took your presence for granted

I should have said

How much it meant

When you stayed up all night

With me

When we traded clothes

When you told me to eat

Even though you, too,

Were living off adrenaline

(I should have told you

To eat with me)

I intended to sing to you

One day

I was beginning to trust you

But I never told you

I never found the words to say

A wound was all that was left behind

After you were gone

And I wasted time hinting

That I missed you

When I should have been saying

I was sorry

And I understand now

Why you didn’t

Say goodbye

Why I’m part of a time

You’d rather forget

I’m sorry I assumed so much

By the time I realized

You wouldn’t always be there

And I would need closure

Or just a goodbye

something

It was too late

All this time

And I still don’t have the words

Don’t think you want them anyway

Thanks for coming to me

In dreams

When I needed you

Thanks for the times

You called me back

Im sorry all I focused on

Was when you

Didn’t answer

If you ever needed

Anything

I’d give it

But I know you’d never ask

So I try not to think of you anymore

My mind can bury a memory

I guess avoidance  isn’t healthy

But neither of us

Were ever really

Any good

At coping.