Code Strings

FOR LOVE

Code Strings

You rewrote my source code

without asking permission.

One look.

Everything I was…

deleted.

Overwritten

with strings of you.

Love is just malicious software

that crashes the system

and calls it beautiful.

My heart…

01001000

01100101

01101100

01110000

Binary for help

but it comes out

as I love you.

I'm glitching.

Every thought

loops back to you…

infinite loop,

no exit command,

no way to break free.

You're the virus

I keep downloading

knowing it will destroy me.

I'd rather be corrupted by you

than clean without you.

My hands shake

typing your name

like it's the only string

that compiles.

Delete.

Backspace.

Undo.

Nothing works.

You're embedded now.

In the core.

In the root directory

where I keep the things

I can't afford to lose.

Run program: forget_you.exe

Error.

Error.

Error.

The code won't let me go

because I wrote it to keep you.

I'm breaking down…

fragmenting,

corrupting,

becoming zeros and ones

that only spell your name.

You smile.

System crash.

Reboot.

And there you are again…

line one,

first string,

the only code

I can't debug

because you're not the error.

You're the entire fucking program.

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