Suffocating
There are some days you wake up and wonder why her name isn't lit up on your phone
Or when you get news good or bad you know she doesn't care
So when you learn you might be dying and then you learn you're not
It will affect her all the same
Yet she wouldn't pick up the phone anyway
You know, because you trie
And you run pasther house and the pain of that is worse
Than the three miles you did without your inhaler
Because breathing without her
Is harder than breathing through broken lungs
And some days you can't stand to see the tree
Where she used to park her car
Because you think of all the hours you spent there and how they're gone
And you get mad because you can't eat bagels where you used to go to lunch
Or open up your box because it's full of things from her
Just like it's hard to open your closet because her sweatshirt's still there
And yet you can't bring yourself to lose them
It's like when the girl next to you in physics sits down
And she's wearing the same perfume
Your eyes start to tear but you keep breathing in
Or when you pick up the stuffed animal
From the perfect surprise date
You can't help but love him
Even though he's poison to your heart
And you plug in your iPod for the first time in months
Forgetting the password is her name
And seeing the pictures and notes she left you
You fall in love all over again
You start to wonder if it could ever be the same
Thoughts of her are intoxicating in the worst, best way
You replay your memories time and time again
And though it's been a year you still remember how her lips feel on yours]
Or how she traced her fingertips along your spine or through your hair
So mindlessly like it was their only job
Just as her hand fit in yours in a way nobody's has
And you can't erase the way she looked rubbing the corner of her pillow
Or how innocenty she slept with her arms around you
And you know every face she makes
Or her silly little phrases
And sometimes you catch yourself saying them too
But you don't wish for them to leave
Even though she did
-it's getting hard to breathe