And then
The moment dropped

Like a handful
Of blood splattered marbles

On the floor she screamed out
"Get me the HELL out of HERE!"
We rushed through the door
Down rotting stairs
Out to my car which couldn't start

Starlight lit her frozen grey face
Legs shook with a stones grace
The red car revved in roaring
Ruining our **** poor chance
Of love and all its small revival

On the road

I got it

To work

The road signs curled past
The stop lights the same
America's way
Of keeping us controlled and
Sane

All of that
Mattered nothing to me
Then

Life's preciousness was sitting
Right in my lap
Her eyes looked up at a sky
She feared

She would never see again

In the hospital
Through the gate
Past the guards
Dodging dual fate

I was stopped by arms
Not my own

Wheeled away
To fill out work
With pencil a bend
And a mind past hurt

8 hours I sat
Next to tweaked out bumpkins
Former school yard friends
Clicking my lead
And gripping insanity as if
Dead

She never came out
She never pushed through the
Double doors

I received the news
And I've been weeping
Every day
Every year

Far beyond the memory

Her mocking voice clear,

"We'll live forever, I promise my dear."