lifethrupoems

Cold fingers slip through

The gaps of my bloody hands

Beating slows under my fingertips

Pressed desperately against the neck

Of the one who wasn’t supposed to leave

I sit frozen

In the river of red life

Flowing from the body

Which was supposed to be forever warm

Forever moving

Forever breathing

Arms drag me away

As I scream and thrash

Because if I can just open

The eyes, you’ll come back

You’ll come back to me

Warm gaze will catch mine

Mouth will form that stupid smirk

Just want to see that smirk one more time

But as I sit on the tree

Where we promised to never leave

Each other all those years ago

I can only grimace

And tell you

As I hear them coming for me

The screams of rage

The weapons of fury

That it won’t be long now

“I’ll see you on the other side”