A blank stare rushes over my eyes
I focus on your mouth
Everything else blurred out
“Break up”
The world stops
And fades to grey
I can only picture your mouth repeating those words
“Break up”
“Break up”
Each time it becomes more and more real
My instantly crippled spirit can only muster the reply of
“Why?”
“How?”
“How…can this…”
“Be?”
I drifted through the rest of the conversation
Like I was hit in the head
Concussed
Deafened
All I could do is stand there
And stare
Remembering every last detail about her before she’s done talking
Because by the time her sentence is done w–
And that’s it.
