The Art of Disappearing

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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #2361308

short poem about love lost.

You feel like a ghost.
Trapped in the cavity of my heart.
I've locked you there.
I'm afraid if I let you free,
then the pain i have coddled will go...

I gotten used to that feeling. Though painful.

it was you.
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