The moment I get to think of you and I and start to reminisce

is the moment I Slowly remind myself you and I no longer exist.

How far I’ve come just to slip back in again

Will there ever be an end?

The struggle it is.

Why must I beg and plead for only you and me

When our tragedy is but the past.

I’m slowly comforted by things around me until a reminder, sparks and ignites

Until I’ve burned until exhaustion and I’m Left with just tonight.

You are a burn that throbs, a scar that never fades

Something so damaging it never leaves.

I carry you with me.

I distract and I come back but my vision of my current life is blurred

That time spent I feel was never really earned.

This is now what I deserve.

However far away you go, however far away I try to escape

There’s a piece of you there, following.

Why can’t this be simpler, let the time fade it away

Why can’t two people just be together, no complications, no one strays.

I’m left with my things.

And time.

Love is left to the ignorant.

We should’ve been blind.

I should’ve tried harder

When there was only you and I.

-Kelsi Taylor 2013