detachment

my friends would say one day, dear,

you won't notice when it disappears

like a thread stretched so thin

that within a flinch, it abruptly snaps

slice open my reality

carry the stream of wine-stained memories

down to the gravity’s pull

a separation in diplomacy.

or so I’d visualize

the taste of your words

sour my tongue overnight

so long

the swirl of liquor that perfumed my sweet dreams

humming innocence in our sunlit home

got her cradle in a fresh coat of cream.

my friends would say one day, dear,

you won't notice when it disappears

like drifting off at the last chapter

eyes open to blurry ink and crinkled letters

while pages slip off your fingers bend

or so I’d visualize

vices once were passports

to migrate from my woes

have been replaced with different hues

of a new belief system

stop the knife from twisting

the lie of its overdue existence

learning to distinguish

love and self preservation

love and attachment

love and detachment.