i kept it anyway

I didn't break it

But I kept it anyway

You left your guilt here

And I made it stay

I folded your letters

Like I fold my thoughts

Into corners I can't reach

Where memory rots

I washed the plates you never used

Took your name off the rent

But guilt clung to the doorknob

Like it still paid the percent

You said, "It's yours now,"

As if that made it fine

But silence has a shape

And it matched mine

I didn't break it

But I kept it anyway