In this world

Did you

                hold on                  to me

or did I reveal

my banshee soul                  to you

so much make believe

I trusted you         to know

to understand why

one must never

weep

silence a mocking foe

shrouded               in hope

I was waiting where did you go        

you cannot say and I         I just do not know

from way over there

you do not echo anywhere

I am so

lost

the deadliest place is no place new at all

this makes me sad               nothing I haven’t been before

this makes me wonder                        nothing I haven’t feared before

this makes me afraid to sleep with the door

closed

to remember is to fall

memory the betrayal of

what decorates the hall

a collection of explosions

kept

in an open jar

because you let go

you let go

this makes me remember                   everything you forced me to know was true

this makes me walk away                                 from everything that reminds me of you

you could not       hold on

and I     

now I am gone…