How.

How can you be haunted

so deeply by one person that your bones feel bruised with their memory?

How can you spend

nearly a decade trying to forget

how they taste

how they feel

how they sound

how they laugh

and still find yourself

up to your throat in desire?

How can forgiveness and

forgetfulness toe the same line

and leave you wondering if

you’ve actually forgiven

them at all?

How can their words

still walk up your skin

like fingers, leaving

stardust in their wake?

How can you ever expect

to move on

let go

forget

exorcise

terminate

repair

your soul?

How.

How?