I never loved you, but you didn't care. You wanted to hear it anyway. You'd breathe your desperate "I love you"s into my mouth with each kiss - brush them across my skin with every touch. It broke my heart. I'd press my fingers hard against your neck so I would feel more human. I caught your words with my hands and strangled them before they could do real harm. You hung yourself on my ceiling and sang to me, but I didn't hear you.

I'll never hear you.