BETWEEN THE LINES (7/30)

so here’s the girl crying on the phone / the girl begging you to come home / and there’s your voice saying i’m sorry that it ended like that / (but i’m not sorry that it ended) / and it would have been you if you were here / (but you aren’t so it isn’t) / so maybe i should have known better / so here’s a whole poem that doesn’t mention my heart once / (this line doesn’t count) / (just like saying my name doesn’t count when it’s always in the dark) / and here’s me turning more funeral than girl / a swan song out of key / here’s where i try to forget your voice / and then i try to carve your name out of my memory / (but i can’t) / (so i still wake up screaming it when i have nightmares) / (so this isn’t the version of the story i want to be telling) / so here’s the truth / just a girl carrying her grudge like a second skin / (and here’s the words that are neither here nor there) / (where i wear missing you like a second skin)