we were

we are reduced to hi
a simple wave in the hallway
as though we were never lovers
never knew each other, as well as I knew you
and I did, I knew from a touch to a kiss
to stolen moments
that are now  just reminisced
I remember us as a still picture in my mind
as still as the hi's we share, as though
we were never lovers
as though I never touched you
or won your heart with simple words
words that resided in my mind all day
looking for ways to tell you
my heart burning with every moment spent without you
begging for a Friday that never came
and when it did, pleaded for it to go slow
so next week wont feel the same
so I can have something to hold onto
the hope that was given so effortlessly
& you said in so many different ways
you were in love with me
as in love as that hi we've been reduced to
that wave that says we were never lovers
that we never belonged to each other
though we did
I was so intimately I was infatuated
with every inch of it
though the simple waves and goodbye looks
will never tell me if it hurts
I hope the absence of my love was worth it
that the closure I needed is embedded in stone
in that hi we've been reduced to
I still love you
the hallways I see you in will never erase
the fact that we were there
in the moment consumed by passion
surviving off the intimacy we shared
we will never be forgotten in my mind
though my heart hurts and dwells on the pain
Ill walk the hallways just the same 
and wave your sweet goodbye
as though we were never lovers.