I’ll drink myself to sleep one more night as I revel in memories of an embrace I can no longer request with frequency or any sort of meaning. It seems that pride has swallowed you whole, but I can’t complain ‘cause ambition has drove me away. And though you say “myths like love are dead chemicals,” I’ll hopelessly breathe life to this fable. I WON’T BURY IT. Breathing down her neck I said the word “forever” once. She shot me down and said “words like forever? No! Not for us!” But her warning has been disregarded in a fashion one might call delusional. But it gives me the strength to push through the greatest pain I’ve ever known. Known since we learned… Love is not patient. Love is not kind, but some things, they don’t fade in time. And if to love is to suffer then to let you go is the only way that I know to suffer with honor. But I would set pride aside just to live in your eyes. And though you say these chemicals are dead, I know they still linger in me. I WON’T BURY IT. And the lurking thought of putting my life on hold perches itself on my shoulder, daring me to dismiss all my dreams and find identity in yours. We both know we would never rest easy living as an accessory. But I can’t find peace in separation. Only regret in parting ways. Breathing down her neck I said the word “forever” once. She shot me down and said “words like forever? No! Not for us!” We grew listening behind closed doors. Just listening as love died around us. And I’d done anything, cried with my mouth shut just to preserve us. Love is not patient. Love is not kind, but some things, they don’t fade in time. And if to love is to suffer then to let you go is the only way that I know to suffer with honor. But I would set pride aside just to live in your eyes. And though you say these chemicals are dead, I know they still linger in me. I’m cluttered with memories of time that slipped from me. They don’t fade, they don’t dim, they just replay and never spread thin. But this affliction sends me spiraling through a cluster of emotion I can’t shake, I can’t break, I can barely take. So I’ll hold onto us tight. I WON’T BURY IT.