After We Broke

You left your sweatshirt on my chair

Coffee ring still on the table

Two tickets on the fridge door

One used

One unable

I keep your toothbrush in the glass

Like you might walk in any second

Talk to shadows on the hallway wall

Pretend you still remember

I don't know who I am

After we broke

After we shattered

Picking up pieces of plans

Sweeping up all that mattered

Your name stuck on my tongue

Like a word I can't quite say

I don't know where to put

All this love you threw away

I changed the sheets

But not your side

Sleep curled up against a memory

Replay that last

Small

Tired smile

Like a scene stuck on a cracked TV

Friends keep asking how I've been

I say "fine" and change the subject

Every road back to myself

Still runs through your exit

I don't know who I am

After we broke

After we shattered

Picking up pieces of plans

Sweeping up all that mattered

Your name stuck on my tongue

Like a word I can't quite say

I don't know where to put

All this love you threw away

Maybe you'll scroll past my face one night

Drunk and a little too honest

Type "I miss you" then erase it twice

And blame it all on August

I don't know who I am

After we broke

After we shattered

Picking up pieces of plans

Sweeping up all that mattered

Your name stuck on my tongue

Like a word I can't quite say

I don't know where to put

All this love you threw away