left to decay, you left me

people have changed their faces

the voices I once knew now speak in other tongues

the streets have been repainted

the windows that held memories now reflect strangers

even time has learned to forget you

but I haven’t

I’m still here

you moved on

and I rotted in the place where you left me

everything in me went quiet

except the sound of your leaving

echoing like a wound that never closes

I stayed where you forgot me

like a body that refused the ground

sometimes I think

I was buried alive

the moment you turned away

days have passed through me

but they never took me with them

hours scratch at my skin

trying to drag me forward

but I don’t move

life knocks on my door

and I pretend not to hear

I don’t want it to come in

I don’t want it to clean

what’s left of you from here

the world keeps being born

and I keep dying slowly

in the same place

where time left me with your name between my teeth

and my heart stuck in the yesterday

that never ended for me