Icarus

A silent scream echoes skyward
Tearing across the darkened clouds
The river of memory begins to tug at me
Pulling me into its painful undertow.

I find myself grasping at anything I can,
An exercise in futility as I wonder
Just how I could have allowed it to end like this.

Every word falling from your lips,
Spilling forth from your fingertips,
Is like a needle in my chest and
You hide away everything I ever gave you,
Pretend as if I never existed
As if you never loved me at all.

I can only stare in shock as it's torn away,
And grow more agonizingly bitter.
Your shadow pulls me close and reminds me
That I was once important
And maybe I still am;
Yet the way you seem to deny what we were
Speaks volumes to the contrary.

With a heart calcifying into stone,
I'm drowning in intense sorrow;
Sinking into the depths of what once was
And will never be again.

I wish I were light years away from here,
That I could wash away your fingerprints,
The stains you left on my lips,
The chasms you scratched into my brain
Can never be refilled or repaired.

I had hoped I would never have felt this way again.

The bullet of casualty struck-
A barrel full of smoke before me.

I fall to the ground, broken.

Why did it have to be you?