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I Can't Forget.

Tears cascade down my mascara stained cheeks

As I scream into my already wet pillow

Your name eases from my lips in a whisper

The very contrast to all the memories whirling within

Tornado like winds take over my mind

Removing any other thought, or possibility- all thats left is you

 

Your memory teasing me with detailed images of your smile

Something that was erased for so long I forgot it existed

Dimples tugging at the corners of your thin pink lips

As they framed your blinding white teeth, as straight as a picket fence

All thanks to three years of pain and torture of metal

That you whined about at every moment possible

 

But even when you whined, I couldn't take my attention away

Hypnotized by the sunset gleaming in your ever changing colored eyes

Reminding me that the world exists outside of your arms

Though I never wanted it to, I wanted to stay

To feel the warmth of the inside of that dreary black jacket

As long are your arms were at home there too

 

Home took on a different meaning with you

One that meant late summer nights with our minds among the stars

On a barely exinsistant landing strip

Dedicated as our towns sad excuse for an airport

Never did we see a plane, though we hoped

Sadly plotting that if we ever were so lucky it would show us the way out

Into a world that we hardly knew because we were both here

Stuck in a one horse town with people whose every name we knew

 

And then you were gone

Swept away with the changing of the tides from fall to winter

The seasons change without passing because my mind doesn't see

My eyes only exist glazed over in long lost memories

Days like death I would pray to forget if I ever thought that God did exist

And early morning hours I wish I could remember

 

Where ever you are now I hope you know this

Whether you're six feet below me or a thousand above

Your name rings in my ears every second of every day

Never forgetting the promises we made, or the games that we played

Tricking each other into believing that forever did exist

Never forgetting the times you made me laugh because you were stupid

Or the kisses that I never could seem to resist no matter how mad I was

 

We were robbed by depression that gripped your soul

It dug in its sharpened claws and snatched away the purest of hearts

Within months that raced by like moments it drained you

Like the longest of droughts drains the deepest of rivers

Away went the days of love and sanity and in came the hurricane of hate

Tearing apart everything that we had and throwing it a thousand feet away

 

Who knows where we would be now if you had managed to escape

To find your way, even broken or damaged, back into the eyes of that

Golden haired hero I could not tear my eyes away from

Even when you were preoccupied across the room hidden from my sight

I was fixated on you

 

Now that has translated into fixation of my brain

Onto memories and horror and pain that I can't find any way to contain

So I cry on nights like tonight when I can't get away

The dam of a facade I apply with my makeup every day fades

Into a twisted crumpled hurt of never understanding

Why you're still always on my mind

 

Hazy dream like memories are crushed by the terrors of fights

Then mended by the paintings of us on those late nights

Broken and shattered by screams we both regret

No matter what ever the flashback consists of

It is running through my mind, chased out only by

Shrieks into my soaked stained pillow

And never drying eyes

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stephanie-carlson
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Jun 2, 2011
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