She no longer loved him, so she said
Not in the way she had before
but when he reached out after two years,
it had been easy for her to fall back into that space
that they once referred to as ‘Us’
With him, she recognized the face
that looked back at her in the mirror
especially the smile painted brightly across
it was the girl she had been for 8 years
It was all too familiar, all muscle memory,
walking backwards across a scorched bridge
to the land of ‘All That Was’
And there was comfort in settling down
into the burned black soil and planting words,
thoughts and touches that would never bear real love
