Don't tell me you love me
Don't tell me you like my taste
Not the music
Not the art
Not the lovers in my heart
Can you see the accident?
Not the murder
Not the pain
Just the blood
This silent little mess
......
I don't know if words can reach you now,
but I need to try.
Not to erase what happened,
but to honor what mattered.
I hurt you
not with intent,
but with impact.
And I see the distance it carved
between us.
......
Never a night passed,
Without her photograph.
It stayed idle, lifeless,
Speaking every word
I wish to hear from her.
Sometimes, I bring her
Closer to my lips,
Trying to comb her hair,
To kiss her forehead,
To hush into her ears,
......
I speak,
but the words fall short of what I feel.
There is no poetry in regret,
only the weight of what was broken.
I see the hurt I caused
in the way your silence lingers,
in how your eyes no longer soften
when they meet mine.
......
Ah.
Ahhh.
I love it.
Come to me.
I am afraid,
But the fear is willful.
There is light in the tunnel.
Joy
I offer my sorrow.
I corralled you into the corner
......
I speak,
but the words fall short of what I feel.
There is no poetry in regret,
only the weight of what was broken.
I see the hurt I caused
in the way your silence lingers,
in how your eyes no longer soften
when they meet mine.
......
I don't know if words can reach you now,
but I need to try.
Not to erase what happened,
but to honor what mattered.
I hurt you
not with intent,
but with impact.
And I see the distance it carved
between us.
......
Perforated stigmata, the Ruby stream
Erosion to weather the cliff-face
I had to crucify you.
There was no other way
Mountainous insurmountability
My liability
I wash clean,
My hands
......
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Don't tell me you love me
Don't tell me you like my taste
Not the music
Not the art
Not the lovers in my heart
Can you see the accident?
Not the murder
Not the pain
Just the blood
This silent little mess
......