Done

I’m done anticipating

when I’ll come home

and find a note in your stead

I’m done keeping

the ears of a dog

Alert to catch sounds

of people moving out

Strangers moving in

You blow like breeze

And I settle, like snow

I think we both know

We were never meant to be

And yet we’re pretending

That I can flow

And you can stay

Because today’s not that day

We want to call out 

the elephant in the room

The wall clock is just where it was

Wardrobes neatly arranged

Why upset things?

But I’m done watching

the wall clock tick like a time bomb

And the wardrobe

that any moment now

can spill out skeletons 

If I broke this glass bottle

That’s sitting on this table between us

Broke this careful silence
And announced that it was time to leave

The ghost would be out

It won’t scare us as it does now
Hiding behind these curtains