Saturday
The kitchen counters are scattered with open spice jars, an abandoned mug of coffee that Vesper brewed twenty minutes ago
You were never an echo. You were Ecco. Beautiful, sick and terminal. Both of them, always. Blood remembers what the
I’am awake, reaching for a voice that taught me silence was safer. The scars don’t show, but the floorboards remember
I swallowed my guilt like broken glassand smiled through the blood. Each night I claw back into the same wound,
Still chasing the fire I know I should not touch. Still choosing the storm over fragile silence. Sorries fall like
So much ruin behind me. Nights drowned in whiskey, cigarette smoke, and bodies that disappeared by sunrise. Every morning tasted