i recognize memories in the tone of your voice. sweet nothings that still linger. that is where i had left you. images from a time passed. thoughts that once were embraced by every ounce of my love. until they drained me of all that i was. it s all so distant...foreign to my soul. no longer hovering like a rainbow to brighten my storm. what once was everything, in turn, means nothing. yet here you are. as present as humanly possible, but in my heart, you no longer exist. your voice, in its familiar fragments, echoes through my lungs. reminding me of the kiss that broke me in two. so if I may...ever so hesitantly ask you to stay, but not here. not in my today. stay where i left you. Stay where my sunshine was doomed by your broken words. where my tears drowned the heart i once knew. because my heart no longer holds space for you.