being replaceable

a love you thought true with a life-long obsession

and a life-long obsession with a series of flings

everything is replaceable, you just have to figure out

what to replace it with

when writing you’d replace rhythm with rhyme

when cooking rosemary with thyme

the urge to smoke with pepper cheese

and you’d say one gets by with things like these

i don’t really care if i never see you again

and i know you don’t need me, not that you ever did

everything is replaceable, you just have to figure out

what to replace it with

i long since replaced your letters with books to read

and i run every evening because it helps with sleep

whisky on the rocks instead of the long mid-night talks

and i never liked lonely walks so i got a nice dog to keep

me company and oh he never complains

you remember the time

when undying love we proclaimed

with blades of grass twisted into rings?

so whatever made you think

you were irreplaceable?

you, of all the things