Like Returning a Video (Only My Heart's Not On Loan)

[candescentlines]

She piles the rocks around the river almost like she gives a damn.
You slide into the waters unprepared -
"I left my regrets inside your pillowcase for safekeeping."
Lost my head in the wash.
Remove your hands from around my waist and keep them at my throat.
'Breathless' and 'suffocation' aren't so different when you're a smile away from tears.
Replay the strikeout.
Track seventeen sounds the same aloud, only the beats refuse to play again.
Couldn't bring yourself to clip the wires.
"Red and yellow shine the same."
Too late to think with the numbers in your head.
Time me running from you to yesterday.
"I take it back." I take it back?
'I'm sorry' means to drop a girl's heart,
But you don't want to watch it stain the kitchen floor.
Leave me back against the door, humming lovesongs in reverse
Into a bottle. Into a bucket. Into the bathroom sink.
Poison what's left swimming in the river
And leave the smell of Autumn in the clothes the sun won't dry.

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You'd think life would give me a break from the whole 'unrequited' thing...