Stages of Grief

I want to submerge my ears inside your favorite cassette,

Let your music drown me until it’s impossible to forget.

I want to glue glasses on my face, filled with images of you.

Let your face burn into the lenses of every memory I have until it feels like déjà vu.

I want to suffocate in the smell of your perfume,

Let your scent be the only aroma my nose will ever bloom.

I want to liquify the way you made me feel and swallow the potion,

And taste the joy that you brought me; like it’s my only emotion.

I want to carve your name deep into my chest,

and trace my fingers across the rutted lines proudly, like a soldier wearing a king’s crest.

I want to cocoon myself within my sadness.

Let the pain of losing you feast on my brain until it rots and turns to madness.

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