Laundry Detergent

For so long I didn’t wash the clothes I wore the last time I saw you

It was like I knew something bad was going to happen

Some sort of impending doom or a sublime I didn’t immediately

Recognize I was overcome with.

If I kept them unwashed you’d come back to life, you’d

Apparate in front of me like you never left my side.

Now I turn my head whenever I smell that specific

Laundry detergent that was once glued onto my shirt,

The smell I never wanted to wash away because it reminded me of you.

It transports me back to my late teenage years where I was head over heels

In love with someone who easily could wash me away,

Someone who didn’t want someone else’s laundry detergent stuck to their shirt.

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Cover Photo by Cottonbro Studio.