You Left Your Leftover Gift

An empty can of Icehouse

and a

vacant

packet of Bugle.

Why

do you leave such things?

Are they a reminder of my lost

indulgences?

Or

hints

toward the path of temptation?

Am I your ice-cold, Ice Queen who resides within your Icehouse?

Slews of

unanswered

inquisitions

is what resides within me.

The time before, you had

left

a lonely Icehouse inside a bleu gift bag.

My inquisition began there.

Do you

find

pleasure

in leaving me such

gifts?

Somehow

you knew that my favorite colour was blue.

And the Icehouse, it

forever

remains

an analogy to you.

I strive to understand its significance.

In

your life

and mine.

With no

avail.

Your voice

is unheard.

Yet

your cry

is

perceived.