23/05/2025
Figments
How does he feel it
so deeply
when I am not even there?
Not really.
Not in the way he wants me.
Not in the way he swears his soul touches mine
through the screen,
through the silence,
through the stories he builds
in the dark corners of his mind.
He says we’re making love.
That when he closes his eyes,
he can feel my breath in his mouth.
My skin is on his.
My name trembled at the edge of his moans.
He says he feels it.
All of it.
So much that he cries sometimes
like it’s real.
Like I’m real.
But I am not there.
I am a still body on the other side of the day.
A name he shaped into a longing.
A voice that once hummed into his hunger,
But never really fed him.
He is making love to figments.
To echoes.
To wishbones and shadows.
And maybe that’s the cruelest thing
That his body believes the lie.
That his heart bleeds for a phantom.
That his tears fall for a story
he wrote
alone.