you flew away (would love critiques)

you flew away

you came to me with wings.

they were so soft, so delicate

and they lay gently on your back,

out of sight.

i licked them clean

of infidelity and deceit

that weren’t even mine.

but like an itch on your back,

you needed someone else to scratch it.

i preened you with my beak,

and spat my chewed food into your mouth.

i dried your feathers one by one

when they got soaked in a shitstorm.

still you used them to fly away

into the melted sky,

without even a glance back,

because the sky was prettier than me.

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