Iβd trace your spine until you felt the love from my fingertips burn hotter than the pain shrieking in your bones.
Iβd fiddle with your lamp until it was the perfect shade of indigo.
Iβd keep watch for you in the dark and shield you in the blinding light.
Iβd run you baths that made you feel pure.
youβd never sleep alone,
unless you wanted to.
even then,
Iβd be sitting against your door
with a glass of tea,
fruit,
and your pills.
Iβd write you pathetic sonnets.
Iβd sing you off-key songs.
Iβd read you poetry that brought us both to tears.
Iβd draw you stupid doodles and try to make you laugh.
youβd never be alone
on the miserable floor.
those *******,
with all their relentless,
maddening buzz
wouldnβt be heard over me.
louder,
or more demanding.
Iβd feed you Nutella: my very last spoonful.
Iβd clean your room as often as you wanted, or never.
Iβd take you to bookshops and cafΓ©s and nowhere at all.
Iβd sit with you and play with your piercings.
you wouldnβt be alone,
staring awake at dawn.
the dark,
it wouldnβt be spent so restlessly.
I wouldnβt quieten my desire.
no.
not this time.
Iβd say Iβm sorry when I laughed so hard I spit.
Iβd love you when you couldnβt love yourself.
Iβd care for you when all you saw was waste.
Iβd carry you wherever we went and tell everyone youβre mine.
January 30th, 2014.
to the lamentations of (broken) promise and pain, once dedicated to my lady Hades.
this is the most difficult piece for me to post, in so many ways.
I'm not your Persephone anymore.
there are no more promises of βi'dβ - you saw to that.
you cannot understand how much I hate the piece of myself that cannot hate you.
that will always platonically love you, even when I wish I didn't.
I hope that ineffable connection between us still exists, so you might sense that I will always platonically love you, but I don't know if I can forgive you.