Distracted Poem by Maya Hanson

I press closer until I could follow your ghost through the walls,
lie like my skin is always tingling on fire.

And here you curse like a sailor in strings of sanity, insanity
that mean everything to me.

One, two, seven,
see, I get distracted, lost on your lips and so I will always wander back,
straight lines are overrated when I can't sit still.

Your skin doesn't leave my side no matter what words leave my mouth-
when I can't stop smiling and still hold your eyes,
when every muddy promise leaves me silent, a liar, missing you again,
when the twister that is her sits bitter on my tongue.

Tell me a story,
I start one with an ending
but dipped in distraction every other word is your name,
I never get to the end and maybe that's a good thing.