once i loved you.
Location
i loved you in the curve
of your upper lip budding laugh lines
at the edge of your eyes.
i loved you in
the swell of your lower lip
against my own and in
the stories the pads of
your fingers murmured
lovingly along the expanse
of my hips and the scars
they found there.
i loved you
in the way you
stopped loving me.
in the curve of your lip
and lines at the edge
of your eyes
all turned down
on my every flaw.
in the way
your lower lip spun
around words that
strung me out;
in the way that
your fingertips fled from
my imperfections like
every part of me was
unholy and aflame
as if loving me
were sacrilegious.
and i love you now
in the way you found love again.
in cleaner arms than mine,
but love all the same.