I write your name in a piece of paper

I know I’ll never show you

I write

It’s almost Valentine’s Day

and I know it doesn’t mean anything

but it does

You were something

And now it’s all nothing

except it’s not

I write your words next to mine

As if that will give them back to you

I pray they’ll take with them

the love I have for you

and

you’re gone

and your words

don’t mean anything anymore

only they do

They mean goodbye

-[renata ferretti]