False Memories & Half-Truths

[Dark Muse]

False Memories & Half-Truths

Some things burn
marrow deep

even when
I see your eyes
from a distance

and I know
you will never
come close
again.

I dropped the match
in the gasoline
but you were
the one with
noose dreams.

Are you out
there somewhere
laughing at bitter
victory?

or do you yet
feel regret?
perhaps in the end
it never meant anything
to you.

Have you
destroyed yourself yet?
or just everyone else
around you?

It is hard
to cut through
stone when all you have
is shards of glass

bloody fists
truths & lies
become confused
you don't know
how close I came
you don't know
how far I always was.

You were
one of those
who never should
have existed

so fragile
and yet
indestructible.

It's always
your eyes
& your ciggeretes
the curve of your lips
your tapered fingers

yet those are only
romanticized
aftereffects

the truth
is more brutal
& yet
far less dramatic.

You were just a boy
half-cocked
& dangerous
with the ability to destroy

and I wanted
to watch the world burn

it is all so
devastating & ordinary

[cafolini]

The responsible personalizing girl. LOL
But, indeed: so devastating and ordinary.

[Buh4Bee]

This is a great contrast to your last bright love poem. Sort of like a blight hit the earth- very dark, DM.

[Dark Muse]

This is a great contrast to your last bright love poem. Sort of like a blight hit the earth- very dark, DM.


Thank you! Yes, this is a poem about the past.

[tonywalt]

Well written DM!

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!