all my life you have been a place
an event a person a thing
you're gone now
reborn to moments and memories
you are where I remember you
so I choose sunlight
flower petals
warmth after a cold day
I love you
you live where I live
within
a second life
a second death
beside me
they adorned her in yellow
her smile was nervous and fragile and proud
how has she not cut herself on her double edged sword
how has she hidden the scars so well
they pulled her hair back
it said no
slipped out of the plastic pink clips
she was beautiful
her wrists are bone
her eyes are hollow
her smile is full of tragedy
I'm not ready
please I'm not ready
grief is not my mantle
a flame that burns within
it is not a lifestyle a mood a circumstance a feeling
it is every moment I have ever lived
all at once
my hands empty
of the thing I have lost
