My lips still linger

On when you kissed me goodbye

Doing laundry my blouse

Still remembers your scent

And shares the final perfume.

I was so tired of all the in betweens

I could have laid there with you

Tangled limbs. Warm breath. Gentle kisses

And slept for eternity

You held my hand,

Head between your shoulders.

Why couldn’t time freeze there?

‘Don’t cry,” you whispered.

I really did try.

We forgot the finality for a time.

Laughing through sloppy kisses at

The sound of your lips and my tongue

And the tickling of my fingers up your thigh

Eventually we stood there pretending

This wasn’t the last time in these arms

You kissed my forehead

And lifted my salty lips to yours

Our eyes met.

“Goodbye.”