Knock The Shine Off

As you slowly disappear

I remind myself to

Knock the shine off

As your memory haunts me at night

I remind myself to

Knock the shine off

In the quiet and the still

I remind myself to

Knock the shine off

As I slowly push over

The pedestal I placed you on

I remind myself to

Knock the shine off

You fall to the ground

Towering over me by mere inches

Instead of the vastness

of time and space

and I still have to remind myself to

knock the shine off