i will always love you
but not today
not tomorrow

only when you're gone
i will love you

i will write you long letters
full of wit and wonder

"we are meant
for each other" i'll say
"meant to be together
close together
until we die"

and you will write
in a facebook message
that all i ever do is lie

all we ever are is
a middle school poem
about the snow falling outside

fingers slowly warming
not intertwined
but pressed against the soft vibration
of the phone i haven't picked up for months