February's Stare

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February's Stare

By Ryan Johnston

Valentine moon, 

Starstruck in your arms

Reeling in the night, 

But never you. Never you. 

February's sickness, 

Contagious, like your stare

I would say goodbye

But you were never really there

Never there...

You lived inside me once

And I would breathe you in like air

But distance killed the best of us

And time is a scar, not a souvenir 

You and I, we lived 

Weightless, in those times

Of summer soaked ideas

Glinting like a fire in your eyes

You and I, we died

Wasted, in the days

With the rigid winter air

Of slow motion afternoons

In the month, both of us were born