"23:59"

Yeah…

It’s that same time again

And I’m still here…

Counting down the seconds so I don’t call you…

It’s 23:59 and your name lights up in blue

I reread the text I never sent: “I miss you, fuck you, goodbye.”

The room still smells like that cheap perfume from duty-free

Like old sweat and promises that rotted on my skin.

You said “this is the last time” — but we’re already at a hundred lasts

And I’m still paying for the Uber to fall where I shouldn’t fall.

Your lips taste like betrayal with a Henny chaser

And I swallow the poison like it’s honey.

I know tomorrow I’ll hate myself

But tonight your legs speak to me in Braille

And I read every bruise like it’s saying “stay.”

At 23:59 I still love you

But at 00:01 I hate you all over again.

Your name burns in my chest like a cigarette badly put out

And I keep smoking the ashes of what we never saved.

Tell me it hurts, tell me I’m lying

Just don’t leave me alone with this silence…

23:59 and I’m still yours

Even when the clock hits 00:00 and you’re no longer mine.

Your stories are for somebody else, but my sheets still testify

They scream your name when someone new tries to be with me.

I keep your deleted nudes in the folder called “never again”

But at 3 a.m. I crack the safe like a sentimental thief.

You say you’ve changed, that you’re not the same girl

But that tattoo on your waist is still my signature.

And I, idiot that I am, think I can still erase it

With kisses that taste like goodbye and “one last time, for real.”

Once again with your “I miss you” under dim lights

But in the daytime not even a read receipt, what the fuck?

You talk eternal love, I talk bills

You talk memories, I talk burning the photos on the rooftop.

You say it hurts… well it hurts more knowing

Tomorrow you’ll do the same and I’ll still pick up.

“One last time,” you said — a hundred times ago

So this time I’m the one hanging up first, amen.(Overlapping chaos)

Him: One last time…

Her: There’s no more time…

Him:

At 23:59 I still love you…

Her (over him):

And at 00:00 I’m blocking your number for good. Him:

Your name burns like a cigarette I never put out…

Her:

And I’m lighting a new one with someone who isn’t you, bye.

Left ear (him):

It’s that same time again… and I’m still here…

Right ear (her):

This time I didn’t answer… and I’m already gone.(Call drops. Silence.)