Everything I Am Not

I am warming the place

that you are saving for another.

I am tangled in the sheets,

in the bed where she will sleep.

She will be all that I am not,

giving you all that you want

in a future not meant for us.

I am wrapped up in your arms,

breathing in your scent,

drunk on your aroma.

All the while knowing

that this is all that I will get,

and nothing more.

I fill the cold space

in the dead of night.

I soothe the loneliness

that was suffocating you.

I am just enough

to quell the unease,

to give you hope

for someone more.

More than me.

She will be everything you want,

everything I am not.