I realize now
That I left something,
No I left someone,
I left you.
On the street,
A highway
In the dead middle of the night
When silence becomes a bothersome noise
That makes you want to scream in loneliness,
Or fear.
I left you
Because I was scared
And sometimes it’s hard to talk someone off a bridge
When you just want to jump off the bridge with them,
Together
Thinking that they will extinguish your fears.
Somehow I just know
That the second before my body crumbled to the Earth,
I would regret it all.
I didn’t know how to talk us both off the bridge,
So I was selfish
And I tried talking myself off the bridge alone.
It didn’t work out,
Because now I don’t have you
And now there is an empty space
That I can only blame myself for.
I’m sorry doesn’t cut it,
But I have yet to make a word or think of one
That is filled with more meaning than
I’m sorry.