so you tossed your life
into some deep pit
you carelessly flew
into a raging wildfire
so what about
that deep pain
your broken heart feels
those ragged rocks
your nagging soul hit
maybe jumping off
love's precipitous cliff
was a mistake after all
maybe that slump and rift
we tripped and stumbled on
was some great warning
if only at that time
our eyes had been open
before all that irreverent harm
ripped our hearts out
chewed up your soul
shackled you with wrong
while our universe
ferociously screamed alarm
at first we thought
it all was charming
but now you know
those loving things
you wanted to say
but somehow couldn't
those desperate things
you needed to do
but simply wouldn't
perhaps our words
overtly washed away
with those terrifying rip tides
constantly dragging us under
so much remorseless treachery
based in that wretched undertow
all that coarse rock and sand
eroding endless grooves
scarring your floundering soul
perhaps that tragic day
when your broken body
washed up stranded
on another distant shore
if I could have survived
we would have realized
that love and life
should have given us
something true and more
maybe if we
would have had
a little more time
even if just
one more day
my undying love
would have proved
what true love
would have had
to honestly do
and truly say
beyond bereft
and our dying day

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