m a y b e...
if i scream
             loud
      enough...
you won't hear
my heart
breaking

turns out
i couldn't
do it
for you,
so i
did it
for me

I have a friend,
beautiful and daring,
who is now afraid to love
because of the men
standing in her shadow.
                                         "Maybe I don't know what love really is,"
she said.
                                         "Maybe you loved someone who didn't deserve it.
                                            And that's okay"
I replied.

He knew
the only
way to get
enough of her
was to breathe her into both lungs and never exhale