The page has been written Not by my hands My hands seek something else They seek something to rip out To burn And watch as the words are engulfed in flames, But there is nothing: No Flame, No Will, No strength. I am alive, I guess And for now, The wind does not sing: It cries, My heart dies A little more inside An elegy of the flesh As nature itself, forsakes my presence It is written And that's that. Truer than anything I have known. She is gone
And so am I.
Months ago, I wrote a poem to someone I love dearly. I told her I was leaving the last page unwritten. For her to fill with love, with heartbreak, with anything she wanted. This is my response.