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RHAX — Gasping
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Gasping.Breathe slowly now.
I made the last phone call.
There’s no need to panic.
Breathe, breathe.
I took that step,
grew that spine.
Kicked you out of my heart.
Or so I hope.
He’s breathing in,
his lungs more clear than yours.
He’s your replacement,
but he’s still foreign to me.
I miss the comfort of rage.
Breathing in the smell of ash,
I still smoke our brand;
he smokes something else.
You were dark skinned,
he’s darker.
Brown eyes,
darker brown eyes.
I think I chose him for a reason.
He’s a taller, more beautiful version of you.
She gasps for breath as she laughs;
I’m telling her I literally upgraded.
Yet I think of you home,
waiting alone.
God I know you’re drinking again,
and it kills me, I promise,
that I can’t span that distance that grew between us.
Take a breath between those tears.
I kiss him now and you’re so far away.
Then I look at a little girl with Pacific eyes,
and your world comes crashing back into me.
