"Afterlight"

I had given my all to try and let life pass me by without the thought of you in mind; if it isn't the universe playing some twisted joke that won't let me forget you, then, perhaps I haven't gotten over you. Because after you, I can't see flowers just the same. I can't bid the sun goodbye without remembering your name. Every eye that gazes in mine now reflects a shine I can't define; not after yours was seared in my mind. The stars in the expanse of the night sky now look down upon me differently, wondering why the pair that once gazed back up at them together no longer did. The things once mundane now stand out just a bit more, each carrying an agonizing memory that I no longer flinch away from. My mind twists in desperate unease, as a part yearns to remember what it grew familiar to know, another strives to forego, all while defending against a ludicrous battle against time's inevitable flow. Yet somehow, the hands of time slow seconds into hours whilst I tire in trying to unlearn you. As though a pitiful tree fruitlessly trying to change the way its roots have found to grow, my heart just can't beat the same after your rhythm had been carved within the thin walls of my very veins. Places once crowned with the comfort of you and I now exude a cold stillness as dust settles over the unforgiving space we had sworn too soon was irrevocably ours. The cheek once familiar in the warmth of your kiss now dries the remnants of bittersweet remembrance as I toss and turn until the soft glow of the sun's rays peeks through my eyelids, only now refracted with the hue of a fractured promise of a timed liberation from the night's unkept redamancy.