time takes us apart.
we’re strangers now.
strangers with the whole world.
i know you.
everything.
you know me.
everything.
when i see you,
i think to myself,
you’re a stranger i know everything about.
your name.
your name is beautiful.
a beautiful pain.
your face.
your face is a beautiful pain.
it’s like a drug.
like time.
time is a drug.
it didn’t get me high.
i overdosed on it.

my eyes are green. their blurry. who are you? you’re just a stranger i know everything about. 
you had my heart now it’s missing. you let it loose into the wild like letting an animal go. 
i walk into our places. empty. a piece of me is missing. 
time ticks, you get angrier. you wish upon me worse. 
time ticks, i go without you more.  
time ticks. 
ticks. 

minutes turn to hours. 

hours turn to days. 

i watch the hours. i check everything. nothing. 
as soon as i turn my page, there’s another sentence added. i have to read it again. 
fires start. 
i put them out. 
another starts. 
what do i do? 
i let it burn. you asked for me to burn. i didn’t want to. didn’t ask to.
i can’t close the door.
i can’t walk away. 
you have me on a rope that i can’t cut. 
your hatred for me grows. 
realization hits, how do we go from loving thick and thin to nothing left? 
you’re a stranger i know everything about. 
if i could, i’d remove every memory in my head about us.