25 May 2026

The Aftertaste of You


 

You are asking too much of me, my sweet desire,

I whisper your name through my restless nights

Hoping to summon you at least one more time.

I get this was supposed to be just a moment – wishful thinking on my part,

Yet somehow you branded me for life

And I cannot move on – you are all I want.

Your touch is still what I feel when I try to close my eyes,

Every part of me screams for you and keeps searching.

I still don’t realize how you could leave after what we had,

I am still trapped inside this fantasy, under the moonlight,

Exactly where you left me.

I still try to understand how you walked away as if it was nothing,

Like a hungry animal once it is done with its prey.

But unknowingly you unlocked something dangerous in me,

Your beautiful lies are the truths I am currently living in.

You held me like a shadow – ruining my calm

Forcing me to chase the darkness until I find you.

You showed me you were never meant to stay

Yet I am seeking you, addicted to poison you gave with a smile.

You left me striving for more even if it is my undoing.

You came like thick fog in a rainy day – impossible to escape,

The green glow from our glasses was the only light while you whispered ‘You are mine’.

The strongest taste I have ever known, my thoughts vanished, lost in your softness,

When my world melted under the kiss of your icy mouth.

Your touch rewired my brain, your heart made mine lose its rhythm,

This was the moment I finally felt complete.

Your cherry-flavoured dream pushed into obsession I have never known before,

Maybe I had always wanted someone like you to shake me up,

To mess me up as if I was broken record, an old forgotten song.

Your destruction is still present, crawling through my veins,

Like the chemicals refusing to leave my blood.

Don’t tell to stop, I simply cannot resist the urge you left in me

I will keep looking for fragments of you on every street, at every corner.

Even the coldest rain cannot wash away the sickness living in my thoughts.

I will keep choosing the beautiful lie over the cruel reality.

My hands keep reaching for you in the daze of my sleeplessness,

Then I feel the emptiness within crushing what is left of me.

You were made to destroy my peace during that night,

Then you disappear before I find the clarity I needed to stop this madness.

But I am insane, I keep creating version of us after that night,

Fantasies that keep functioning while my sanity is slipping away.

Your echo follows me everywhere I go now,

Like a lucid dream turning slowly into a dangerous game

A blur between please and destruction, I am too intoxicated to escape.

And maybe someday I will finally be ready to accept

That you never stayed because all you truly wanted was one night of fun.

Until then I will keep annihilating myself in search of a reason you never planned to give.