The Unfollowing

Like a smoke box of a steam engine,
the heart was becoming exhaustively hollow.
Dangerously gleeful, in the murky silt of hopeful imaginations,
it would carelessly wallow.
Images of you,
it had to unfollow.

Remove the distraction.
Remove the distraction.
Ex.
Extract.
Extraction.

Out of sight, out of mind.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Un.
Under.
Undermine.

Like the inside of an aged sap tree,
the woodpeckered heart hollows.
Splashing in the turbid waters of falsity and make believe,
it wallows.
Despite better judgment
and a keen sense of direction-
Images of you,
it still follows.