Suppressed.

[Love me.]

It was only an assurance
to sustain my incurable
breath-
gasping heavily,
without your side
to life my pulse up.

I can no longer whisper
and not convulse
the empty spirit
that causes me to
depart....
like an expired view
of what I yearned for.

[Love you.]

It was all I desired,
a pressing romance
I hungered for-
you became the
element of irony....
I entailed much more
than an instant
of a lifetime.

[Love us.]

It never was....