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by steph Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #1278824
this poem is about love and the pain it causes
i cant look up at the stars...and not think of you
i think of laying in the back of your truck
your arms around me
just staring into my eyes and holding me close
knowing that you'll never let go
and that if you ever did
i would fall and break into a million pieces
be smashed into nothing
the part of me that was once whole
would then be missing
an intangible hole that no one else could fill
something so desecrated by pain
that only you could mend it
a pain deep inside that i try to escape
but my efforts render useless
this cant be real
as time goes on i get pulled under the surface
unable to breath
just out of reach of air
struggling as i begin to drown
calling your name
screaming for you to help
knowing that you want to save me
you want to pull me out of the unmerciful depth
but you turn your head
as a tear rolls down your face
and continue on as if you don't want to remember
you have forgotten that night
in the back of your truck
when you knew of nothing else but my love
promises were made, sincere and true
what happened to us?
so perfect, so unbreakable...
as i am coming out of the nightmare and back into your arms
you let go...
the icy water punctures like hundreds of needles
i begin to drown, fighting for life
its just as i imagined...
but the pain becomes worse
it tortures me and laughs in my face
knowing that i cant stop it
i see you, as i did in my nightmare
i hope that when i scream it will be different,
but you turn and leave me
the unending depths swallowing me into darkness
keeping me alive but only because it hurts more than death
everything becomes dark
feeling escapes all of me but my heart
in which the pain is the greatest
killing me as i furiously fight for you
hoping that at the last moment you might return
only to have me as your love
but the surface keeps rising
as i fall...
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