Dilapidated
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I live in the shadows to
let you soak up the sun. It looks
better in your skin than mine. I let it
go. (watched you slipped so rapidly) I'm
moving along. I cannot hear the lovely ballad of songs
that you whispered for so long.
(you no longer breathe my name) How
can I be me without
you?
(yet you are galaxies away,
dancing in starlight so
bright that I cannot see- breathe, count to ten,
scream, let it out, let me back in please I'll
beg, I swear I won't leav-
The starlight fades,
ethereal shine leave residue on my fingertips where
I reached out
and loved you one last time)
All the precious gems in the world could not compensate,
for the treasure so close to my heart
(a fatal mistake- can I ever recover?) it stopped.
The doctors told me there was no more
murmur.
It was totally silent (it cannot be, come
back to me, please. come back to arms that
will smother your burning light.)
The doctors told me the murmur talked to
my heart stopped- why
have you left me?
Was it not good enough
to live in the light while I mimicked your
motion at night.
( it is too cold,
There are no more stars, no more
pretty light, or shiny hope-
please, please, please I am not strong
enough-
You are galaxies away,
why have you left me?)
There is nothing,
the doctors press a hand to a neck,
and last thing to do is
tell a friend is,
"Your friend said something
about chasing stars, galaxies are where
their bodies lay at rest, dancing in the light for the
last time."
"They were saying goodbye."