I will never forget those long thin fingers
Once used to push the hair away from my face,
now dripping in crimson secrets.
Those steady hands I’d grown to love are now shaking,
Shaking with a fear I have never seen you subject to.
I pray you snap out of this, for the sake of all we know.
Insanity has taken over and I can see it intends to grow.
Over the green grainy hills and cotton candy clouds,
Beyond the crystal covered ocean and suffocatingly star-filled sky,
An echo of a siren’s song resonates throughout and cannot be ignored.
Its addicting melody begs to be traveled and lives to be explored.
This is where we live now though you are not here.
I cry and plead for you to come back to your senses but your mind has disappeared.
Why won’t you end this habit before it destroys everything you know?
For the first time in weeks you look into my eyes, shocked.
Surprised to see me there,
As if I had not been standing in front of you for the past year.
With a twitch of your hands and the stars reflecting in your eyes, you whisper:
“Do not fret my love, it won’t destroy me for I am already as dead as winter.”