Fallen
Abigail Edwards
2019
I remember.
I remember you.
I remember your laugh,
your smile,
the way your eyes would light up a room.
Where?
Where have you gone?
The thought of you lingers,
taking my every thought,
my every breath.
Thinking, thinking,
what did I do
to put out that light?
I’ve let you slip away
through my weak,
trembling grasp.
I should’ve held onto that light,
just a little while longer.
Now I’m drowning,
my arms, legs, torso,
weighing me down to the ocean floor.
Like a boulder,
I keep sinking.
Sinking.
Sinking.
I’ve fallen,
lower and lower into the darkness,
drowning in the ocean of phrases left unsaid.
All of the “I miss you's" that withered away,
never brought to my lips.
I have no doubts that your ocean has run dry.
I’ve fallen,
as did our friendship.
And I’m still sorry.
Dream
DETERMINATION
Abigail Edwards, 2019