Gator

It drags somewhere deeper

when words entwine with breath

you breathed life into dead words

from breath into skin

I can skim into them 

but I am scared to dive deep in

you dipped out of breathing

& now you exist only in words

undead ones

Like a girl wearing headphones

on a beach, empty, why?

just rip them off and throw them on the skeleton

and bathe in the music

I try to soak it in

but the doors to my pores 

have locked

but I try to relish in

cherish in, the thought, the fact

of how the salt of the waves you brought

numbed down all the broken bottles on the shore.