Testing.
Testing,
1, 2—
Will you stay, if we’re screwed?
When I subconsciously
betray you?
Out of line,
out of character,
this—I wish
we won’t have to remember.
Mic’s on—
everyone listening?
Testing,
1, 2
watching,
waiting
bitter and anticipating.
Exhaustion-bred retroactive jealousy
turned almost
relational felony.
Testaments
of you and me.
Testing you?
Testing me.
Abandonment
all I used to breathe.
Surely,
too good—to remain true?
Disappointments,
sinking, slinking into the wind.
With love to spare,
Trying this—again
I couldn’t bear.
