Contact

I spent the early 
hours playing a game 
of he loves me 
he loves me not
in my contact list 
not surprisingly I suppose 
the he loves me 
far outweighed the nots
at the purges start
but with a dollop 
of chagrin I couldn’t 
remember half the names 
who they belonged to 
or why they mattered 
they must’ve some time 
but out they went 
as quickly and quietly 
as the flames that 
they once were warming 
some part of myself 
now condemned to unknown