#PoeticAnswers 2: Why Does Every Song Remind Me of Someone I’d Like to Let Fade Away?

I wanted to stop listening to love songs
Because every chorus reminded me of you.
Every word was an agonizing, antagonizing
Heartfelt reminder of everything I ever felt.

I wanted to stop listening to metal
Because the bitterness and screams kept me in
A constant state of hate that I didn’t want to feel
Because I could never hate you.

I wanted to stop listening to hip-hop
Because the beat and the bass
Was like our two rhythms coming together
Reminding me of the times we became one.

I wanted to stop listening to classical music
Because the beauty of it all
Haunted me, burning ethereal love notes
Off the paper and onto my skin.

I wanted to stop listening to music
Because every song reminded me of you.
Because every lyric was part of our story
And every melody was a memory.

I wanted to stop listening to music
Because everything was on repeat.
Our soundtrack looped and cross-faded in and around itself,
When I should have let it slow-fade to nothing.

I want to stop listening to myself,
Because I’m playing the same records over and over,
Now they begin to warp and break
And leave grooves and scratches on my skin.

Question from Felicia W. from Facebook.