I'm not allowed to see your face
I'm not allowed to speak your name
Or ask for your embrace
I no longer can call you on the phone
And no marathon emails
I can no longer check up on my best friend
I'm not allowed to even call you mine
Silence and space in between
Getting over you takes longer than a day
And a day is what i'll survive
The rest will drag and drag
I'm not allowed to send you a quick message
To let you know i'm praying or dying
I have to wait til the worst is over
Til my heart can beat without your name echoing
Well, when you suggested this prolonged silence
I nodded once and let the tears fill up my eyes
I steeled myself for the pain to hit my heart
And it slammed into me like a wave in the ocean
Beat against me and knocked me off my feet
Tumbling head over heels over head over heels
And then i washed up on shore
I couldn't move.
I think my heart is broken
I can't move.
Who knows when i'll be able to get up again
I took down all the pictures of us on the walls of my cell
I deleted all our songs and hastily hid your notes with the pictures
Far away from this room that now seems to be a prison
No light gets through the bars
I had all these hopes and dreams
I can't have them anymore
I'm not allowed and the contraband simply appears in my heart
Daydreams and the night time ones are off limits
I think my heart is broken.
I think it is.
Really and truly
I'm surprised it still manages to beat
My face can find some semblance of a smile
Somewhere
But my muscles don't feel like wasting energy on something i don't mean
I'm not allowed to talk to you?
What?
I....
can't.

1 comment:
i like the poem.. but babe, it's so sad. i'm so sorry that you're having to go through this. i love you! please let me know if you just need me to listen for a while, ok?
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