I did love you
Enough.
I still do.
And that's the
Entirety of why
I had to leave.
If I stayed
Where would I be?
I trusted you
With my secrets
And while you kept them
I saw your eyes.
I saw how pained they were
How the clear
Beautiful blues
Were horrified storms
And how scared
You were.
I don't blame you.
I'd be scared too
If the one I loved....
If the one I loved
Was scarred
Like me.
If the one I loved
Had done
What I did.
Now the Doors of Death
Are calling me
And I'm oh so happy
To oblige
But I can't
You're keeping me here
You're hurting me.
I put upon
Your shoulders
What Atlas was cursed with.
Holding up a world
That was never yours
To hold.
- Him
YOU ARE READING
I Told Him (Wattys 2014)
PoetryShe told him not to do it but he took his life anyway. Told in free-verse poetry with sparse limerick/rhyming qualities, you don't know their names, but you'll forever remember their story. #Wattys2014
