aftertaste || poetry

013 - delusion's laughter

themes: bitterness, unrequited love, abandonment

we rise together in the dawn

i brush your cheeks into my memory

hushed whispers floating in the halls

i kiss your fingertips as you go

through all the drunken laughter

you never notice my silence

instead i was the only joke

i didn't understand until too late

like a dream you can't wake up from

i'm trapped within your hold

yet another person blind to me

even after i showed you everything

as we draw on to dusk

you can walk away from me

even the sun can burn too bright

and i am the one that's forgotten

i laid it all down for you

but i shouldn't have expected more

you have me wrapped around your finger

yet you tangled the twine of my heart

watching through the window glass

my pain runs deep to the bones

you're the only one laughing

but you would never even know