Set

Tell you what
I’ll never do what you did me
For settling with the inevitable
Premeditated, seconds in
As the moment inspired
an emotional reply

And you’ll do what you say you need
Disappear for the nth time
The hollow matter
In decline
The unspoken love persists
Even in the moment it’s made aware of it perishing

What was setting in
What was settled in
The brief eternity 
That you lorded over

Gratitude is a gift
You leave behind