still visits

na.

stills visits in

dreams even

though you

got away, walks

beside the river

of regret to

remind you

every day,

sings a song

a terrible

detuned thought

which shivers

as a noise

a mosquito

buzzing in the

ear to make a

sustained pain

echo the rest

of all living

moments

shaking & quaking

with those

same inviting

eyes of nights

ago bringing a

new experience

of horror to

all that remains

a defeated lover

who can’t remember

just exactly how

it all had started,

only how desperate &

self-destructive

they had to be to

do so.