What do you write to the saddest girl in the world?
Do you write about the beauty in the moon
The way its reflection
Stains the waves white?
Do you write about the way the rain
Falls on the surface
Of the water
And how it looks from underneath
Dancing with the oxygen
You exhale
Do you write about the wind
Tearing
Caressing
Green
Red
Brown
Yellow
Non- existant leaves?
Do you tell her
About your cheeks stinging
When the sky is grey
And how it feels to have drizzle
Falling across your closed eyes?
Do you tell her about the little boys
Who pick flowers
Just to see her smile
Or the girls who spend minutes
Writing her name?
What do you tell the saddest girl in the world?
Do you tell her
That everything is infinite
Or that it is necessary
For all things great
To end?
Do you tell her
About the flowers
You see
And the smiles
You can no longer count
Or do you tell her about the flowers
That lose their petals when she
Forgets their beauty
And the people who fade away
When all she sees
Is grey
Grey
Grey
Emptiness
Do you tell her
When you miss her smile
Or do you kiss the tears
Off her cheeks
And dance with her
Slowly
Across the bed
With rumpled sheets
And lines
And lines
Of sunlight
Do you tell her
That you love her
Without her sadness
(God, I hope you do)
But with it too
Or will you
Never tell her
The way she never tells you
And will you keep
The receipt
That she had written
About never telling the person you love
The most
How much you love them.