BLACKHOLE SUN 4. Comments

4.
If you no longer, not here
Anymore, just memories, evaporate
One at a time, and I alone always, everywhere
In search of nothing, by a sleepless state

Consumed, to keep myself from dreaming of you.
I don't want you to pretend that you're still here
Now neither lustful, languid smile nor flesh and sinew,
I'm no longer the one with whom you were familiar.

You've taken me with you. Leave
Alone the thing that I am here within,
A thing so full of pain it needs to grieve,

A deadly hate that burns itself, till I am purified and purged and -
Take good care of who I was. Think of the kiss I wish I'd been
Once more. Forget the kiss I no longer am.
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