i knew.

We were never whole, just separate halves diametrically opposed to all we thought we’d be. Your heart beat beneath your rib cage was a rhythm I couldn’t match, in the pools behind your eyes were depths I couldn’t fathom. The sun through our windows turned us into gold but like midas you turned to other things and I turned into stone, a cracked edifice composed of all I’d ever wanted to believe of me and you. Our days turned into cobwebs, straining in the corners of these old forsaken buildings, like heroes forgotten we became our pasts. One more thimble of regret is all I need to fill these pages, spilling drop after drop of blood I cry with unheard words, you are not the one I knew. A whisper turns to shouting turns to words choked through voices we can’t recognize. I am not what i expected. You are not the one I knew.