little do you know,
i've been knitting together your words for the past couple days
"stop trying to talk me out of staying...
have i ever even mentioned leaving?"
"i don't know the future
but i'm here now
and i have no intention of leaving
...
i know you don't believe it or me,
so i'll just have to prove it to you"
"i love you, i always will"
and what is a symphony to my ears,
"i need you"
"you are my world"
and
but you.
oh,
it's all too nostalgic and
a sadistic mix of familiar and unknown.
tonight marks the start of the waiting,
tonight i climb into bed,
fiercely wrap the protection of your promises around me,
and pray this blanket is made well enough
to last me.
to shelter me from the avalanche of numbness that will strike any moment.
YOU ARE READING
ruby
Poetrypoems about the next stage of my life, hopefully about new experiences but also about hanging onto something the heart has desperately longed for and isn't quite ready to give up
