Bleach

Forgetting you came with bleach

with my hands without fingerprints

the clothes in the fort-block bin

the fake passport

and the change of number.

Erasing you came in the colour of the rainbow,

that I flip the coin and guiding me with a broken compass

I left with broken bottles,

red eyes,

crooked teeth

and broken heart

I got desperate because your ghost has an echo

I disappeared in the presence of everyone

running through our corners with smiles choked on tears,

I left with the laces untied, burned photos, the desire to still know you

I hit my head against the walls, I fell down the stairs, I gave myself an OD because forgetting you was taking,

my name

my reflection

my love

and I was dying with every cleanse

The amnesia of you was burning my country

burning bridges

cutting my hair

sewing my lips

walking without running

to end at your feet to beg you to please please please please let me go without your ties that drown me to return to you.

TA.