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Gone

It's cold
The night air 
Stinging my skin
And It burns me
chills me
Simultaneously 
Brings me back
Am I still standing here..
Am I still waiting..?

It's coming back to me
Flooding back really
And I wish I could slow it all down
Stop every single 
Neuron 
Every syaptic response
Just make it stop
Just make it...stop
 
I can still feel her
See her
Smell her hair
Her perfume 
And every molecule of me 
Clinging ever so tightly
To the memory of her
Tightly to her scent
Engrained in my nostrils
I close my eyes
And I cant help it
I see her 
I smile at her
And a tear fights its way down
My ever so cold cheeks

She's talking
She always had the most awesome teeth
The most beautiful face
I look at her and every touch 
Every kiss stolen from her
Every word crafted 
To capture her ever so elusive heart
Every unsheltered moment of passion...of perversions we so wholeheartedly indulged
Fills every nook every cranny that is my grey matter
I remember it like its the first time
All of it a-new
Her walk, her smile, her touch
I revel in the memory
I would live in that memory
I would give anything to meet her again
For the first time
To see her walk toward me
Smile at me, say all the words 
We loved to say
Just once more..to feel

I can make out her words now
But I wish I couldn't
I try to drown it out
I try to hide in the 
Crevices of my mind
But the memory finds me
And this is happening
Every word
Every syllable 
Breaks a piece of me
And burns me
Yet still I remember every minute 
Every bloody second 
Every scorching syllable and consonant
I can't fight it
I can't slow it
I can't stop it..
And I can't...I just cant..
I want it to stop
I want her to just smile and say
It's all going to be okay
Just once more 
So so badly once more
To hear her voice once more 
To touch her face just once more
Feel her presence
Look at that blank expression 
She used to give me and laugh
A happy laugh a contented laugh..just once more
But its done....she's gone she left me here and
She's gone..

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Scorned

I breathe deeply,
Take a long blank,
Look into the night sky,
Ironically clear as day,
I Inhale.
The air is heated,
Smoke rising,
Sirens in the distance,
I don't care,
I blur it all out,
I feel it ,
Seeping,
Into my very soul,
I feel the calm,
Starting to take root.

To love someone,
Is a gift,
More often taken for granted,
Than most realize,
To find true love,
Is an anomaly,
An error of probability,
A tenth of a tenth of a tenth,
Improbability.
Yet find it I did,
And better still,
Take it,
A fools errand,
But aren't we all fools of love,
Reveled in a dream,
And I none the wiser,
Immersed myself,
In this impracticality.

The fuel,
Still ripe,
On my fingers,
Stinging the scuff marks,
Damn, I should've seen it sooner,
Felt it sooner,
But love blinds all even,
The best of us all.
I take another puff,
The cannabinol,
Seeping further,
And further,
Into my bloodstream,
Calming my nerves,
An unnatural way of sorts,
And in that moment,
I think,
Why have I never tried this?
Damn, note to self
Grow my own stuff.

The immense heat,
Warms me,
Even from a distance,
Emanating,
From what once was,
Our home,
Our escape,
Our fortress,
But she took it all,
She destroyed it,
Genius places,
The odds of,
The type of connection,
We shared,
Reoccurring next to infinite zero,
And for what?
Bloody revenge?
Ill conceived,
Poorly planned...aargh!
Damn it woman!
At least cover your tracks.

All is lost..
I inhale once more,
Deeper than the last,
Yes, calm me,
Was getting worked up there,
But I finally understand,
The anger women feel,
The frustration,
The fractures within,
The torment,
And I am overwhelmed,
Bloody flippin lost it!
She hurt me,
She broke something,
Something inside me,
And I can't fix it,
However hard I try,
I can't undo the damage,
I inhale again,
I dislike variables..
Ones I lack control over,
But that's fine,
I exhale, the smoke,
Leaving my body,
With the troubles clouding my mind,
I'm smiling now,
An evil grin,
A broken grin,
An almost contented grin,
The flames fuel further,
The feeling,
The thought of,
Getting even,
I think about,
Her house,
Her offshore and onshore accounts,
Her car,
Her prize yacht,
Her various estates,
That which,
She thought safe,
She thought hidden,
I laugh almost maniacally,
Almost....almost....
I inhale once more,
Marvel at the night air,
I especially like,
How her roof..
Catches flame,
It missed the large oak,
Always liked that tree,
I chuckle,
No, I laugh,
At how composed I am,
As I walk away,
I finally understand,
Hell hath no fury..
Who says women get to have all the fun.