Remembering....

Sitting alone in a dark room
As a candle slowly burns
I look back on days gone by
When she used to laugh with me,
Days when I used to admire her true unaltered beauty
When I felt her smooth, unbroken skin
The days before she saw her shattered reflection in the mirror

She cried for help
But when I knelt down to pick up the sharp peices
I got cut
My wounds would not heal
Madness slowly infected my veins.
Not knowing what to do I let out a silent scream
A cry for help I wouldn't let anyone hear.
So I suffered through the pain alone.

The wind blows fallen leaves of autumn into the room
I close the window
The clock strikes 12
A new day has come
And the past is even further away

The end for us came just in time
Just before I saw my own shattered reflection.
I'm thankful the end came
For all my broken peices would do is lie there
No one would pick them up
No one would help
I wouldn't let them
No one should ever have tp force a silent scream,
That's not love.

For hours I sit here and watch the candle burn
Thinking about the time I wasted,
The things I should have done,
The friends I should have listened to.

The candle goes out.
I open the window.
Watch the sun rise,
And wait for spring.

-Pete-