could swear

i heard your ghost after you'd gone.

i saw an echo i swore wasn't mine.

now i'd say these things to you—

but who can speak into time?

 

the night was dead & still i felt—

or knew the heat of your breath.

though even as i knew—

you were naught.

& i could swear you were there.

i could swear,

but you're naught.