The One I Could Not Keep Well

1. The truest thing in this life is a broken heart.

2. My phone reminds me when you're heading home, while yours stays switched off for fear of my messages.

3. Don't take so long coming back that there's no home left to return to.

4. I wanted to be the diary of your mind, yet I couldn't even be the cat in your house.

5. No one will believe the pull I feel toward you—not even you. So when you call, I pretend we're strangers.

6. Why didn't you give me the responsibility of keeping you safe? Was I truly so unworthy?

7. Stop looking for me now, with your arms uncrossed. I've run away, taking solitude with me. If you can, make a friend of loneliness too.

8. We parted by mutual consent, years ago. Our lives want for nothing now. We're quite happy, really. Yet in the deep night—you lie awake, I lie awake. Neither of us can find sleep.