PROOF OF YOU

You are not forever.

This thing I am going through?

it shall pass.

You are not a cancer

that will leave a horrible scar

that will always be proof of you

- not at all.

You are the gum at the bottom of a shoe

unintentionally discovered

disliked

and dislodged

in almost as much time

as it takes to say.

You are temporary.

You are transient.

In not time at all,

you will be gone

and I will have nothing left

to remind me of you.

Like gum

you will be scraped away

unless

you stick around.