You

The sun kissed my eyes,

Tickling my cheeks

As its rays danced along the walls of my eyelids
Sweet as honey
Quick!

You don’t want your tongue to miss the sweet sugar taste before it leaves
Because it will leave.
It may last only a moment, but that doesn’t make it any less real

The warmth from the sun played tricks on me that morning;

allowed me to melt into the notion that everything was good

How did my ears not pick up on nature’s warning signs?
Birds squawked instead of chirped
Wind howled

and I misread the rattling in my stomach for butterflies 

I was too blinded by pure bliss that when I rolled over, my body was not ready for your absence 

How is it that Iead replaced my blood, weighing me down by the thousands, but the gaping hole in my chest left me sunken and hollow
I tried to swallow but choked because now the sugar tasted like what bitter loss felt like