In red marker
Love is scrolled across your wrist
Today you exclaim how you will do anything you can to
Prevent Suicide
Today I stand atop the edge of a chair recalling your words...
Kill yourself
You have nothing to loose
No one will miss you...
I pull my face through the noose, it scrapes my face and passes
Salty tears drench my scratches, replicating the pain I've felt my whole life
With the swift jab of my foot the chair falls
I only feel the tug at my throat for a quick moment, then
nothing.
Just yesterday you carved
Useless
on my soul
Today you wrote love on your arms
to see you again
is to walk through the pages of a history book
each word graced by the wonder of truth
I watch grimy fingers crease and turn the pages of time backward
revealing our story
I know it's hard to understand,
that somewhere my heart still pulses with the sweet venom of your love
never have I forgotten the secrets we hold
nor the secret meetings that we held
our tale as old as time
plays back in my skipping record of a mind
an endless song
one I will never forget
one I seem to have forgotten