Oh, Darling

He was smoke

He entered my lungs

He suffocated me 

He surrounded me

And I couldn't catch him

Slipping through the cracks in my fingers

I could never hold him

I could never erase him

Lingering everywhere

My lungs are heavier now

eating me alive

aching 

aching 

aching

aching

aching

My fingers tremble now

So I leave them in fists

And I clench my jaw

Hoping that I can leave him in the past

I thought he was mine

But he was smoke

He was dust

He was ash

He was embers

He burned me alive