Toka Siyam
Contributor
The gaps of sunlight
An image half complete
I try to put the puzzle together
Frayed edges and broken bones
The music in the background,
Your boyfriend loves that song but so do I
I don’t know me anymore
I used to love playing with your hair,
Then summer came and you cut it all off
I slept in your bed for days
Now I can’t recall the colour of your walls
Who am I?
A teenage boy lost in a daydream,
A long way from home
I dream of your eyes, golden honey
We’re lying on the grass
(I wrote you a poem when the cold came,
When I started seeing our ghosts
In places I passed by every day)
Now I’m alone
With the gaps of sunlight
Illuminating my darkest thoughts,
My deepest fear
I lost you on a cold winter night
But darling,
Were you mine in fall or summer or ever at all?