"I Just Sit in Pain Now" by Kelby S. Luskey

I Just Sit in Pain Now

I just sit in pain now
I could fly, you should’ve seen me
Set me in a grey room
Take the window, your love, and pull it from my reach
Cover me in an whiteless blanket of hopeless hope
I’ve never been so lonely
Its not so bad
Each tear springs from my eyes
It leaps to suicide
Splashing on the floor
An eruption of my emotion
So I’ll slit wider the hole in my heart and let my emotions spill forth into delicate chaos on this new
fallen snow
This new bed of silent pardons
Its not so bad
So much now rests on my lips
Not sure to fall
If I could set it on my tongue
and let you taste the words
Even then you would never understand
The tearing my soul has
ripped itself from
I reach from my gentle trellis
To but savor a moment in your fingertips
As your mouth praises upwards
your neck swooping to mine
and I catch my breath if only for a moment
before you press your thoughts to mine
and my tiny hate dies
Dies until it burns

Kelby S. Luskey

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