I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here

by

Brandon Dues

Darling, I can hear you breathing

Hard

Tearing at the wall until the lights come

On

Everything you ever cherished

Gone

I just don’t know what to say. . .

Your apartment is so bare and

Clear

Distant memories always stay so

Near

It took every strength to fight those

Tears

As you paid out all our credit

Arrears

I still don’t know what to say. . .

Startled at the ever slightest

Sound

It rings like a very thunderous

Pound

Everything has mad e you tightly

Wound

You just can’t get past that day. . .

I remember when the dead bolt

Popped

Strangers entered with guns drawn

“Stop!”

The tears flowing from your eyelids

Dropped

To the floor that fateful day. . .

You caught my body when it fell right

Down

The shock and horror as the blood turned

Brown

Weeping as you held my lifeless

Crown

As I left the world that day. . .

I wish you could feel my tight

Embrace

You shiver as try to touch your

Face

A ghost. I will never leave this

Place

I just wish you could hear the words I say. . .