Helium

Helium - Dabin/Lexi Norton

That night in the silence of my dimly lit room

I felt you exit through my chest

I sat there clinging onto my knees in denial

Quietly folding myself in half beneath the cold sheets

With each weeping breath I felt fragments of you leave

Releasing themselves through my tightly clinched throat

Carbon dioxide flavored sentences expelling themselves from my lips

Your poems began to lift away from my hollow skin

With the same grace a balloon uses as it slips through

The fingertips of a curious child

Confused yet hopelessly in awe

Arms extended reaching for the strings

What a fool I was for thinking I could keep you

Pretending you were made of something else

Something tangible something real

You made me believe you were more than just a light in a colorless element

But you were built solely for drifting away

And when I see you again with my eyelids heavy

I will not fall to your feet I will be new I will be clean

A disease of your kind cannot exist within my frame