Like Nothing

You left like it was nothing–

A breath in a storm,

Exhalation,

A slight pause after a misstep

Without looking back.

We spilled our souls

With crooked ladles,

Splashing counters,

Dripping secrets like stains

On white linen shirts.

You decried abandonment,

Screaming that true love would stay,

Would never ask you to change,

Wouldn’t want you happier,

Wouldn’t want you healthier.

One year of laughter,

One year of pain,

Then all I heard was silence.

It’s suffocating,

The weight of non-existence

Crushing my chest… .

But it’s nothing to you.

Maybe it never was.

Maybe it never will be.

Maybe it never is.