the missing doesn’t know time
the hurt doesn’t play well
with drugs, liquor
cigarettes or strangers
but it's more than that

i don’t know who i picked a fight with
i could talk my way out of the electric chair
before you
this feels like losing everything
everything’s taken away
until my life is

i don’t want to hurt you with that
but i feel nothing
there’s nothing so vast
it makes the Boötes Void
look like a pond i could skip rocks across

the sun kissed my face today
but it may as well have never burst into
flames
billions of years before

i can’t feel its genesis
i only see its end

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the earth that birthed us
the world that brought us together
was beautiful for a short time
with you