Erase me gently

Erase Me Gently

Erase me gently

not like a storm, but like fog fading at dawn.

Take the laughter from the corners of my smile,

the echo of my feet on the path where I waited for you.

Erase the way I used to skip,

light with hope,

sure I’d see you again.

Erase the warmth in “I love you”

because I meant it,

and now I don’t know who I was

when I said it.

I am not here.

Not like I was.

But still,

you hold me in the quiet

of your hollow mind

and I wonder why

you can’t let go.

And then I remember

You are me.

And I am what you wish

you could forget.