With decomposing irises

You looked me dead in the eyes

And I saw everything I needed to

When I saw nothing at all

The windows of your soul,

Blue curtains drawn apart,

Lead to an overwhelming emptiness

The same kind I suddenly felt within me

As panic seeped into my being

That’s the point when I started

To catch on, to catch cold

An encroaching illness, a fever

Creeping up

Synching up

With my unwilling suspicion

I can’t believe

I believed someone

Who was lying

On their deathbed

Trying to bury me in their place

Back and forth

Back and forth

Waters sway

Anxious

Indecisive

Back and forth

Back and forth

I go

Between you

And sanity

Like water, I settle

@verstella

I forgot about homework, yes truly

Then remembered, but forgot once again

I’m surprised how poor mem’ry, it threw me

To a panic, yet I managed to pen

One quatrain while I sang in the shower

A few more lines while I combed through my hair

A couplet while crying in rush hour

And some more rhymes that I plucked from thin air

Should my sonnet be filled with delusions

Or brimming over with loves sad and true

I’m not sure, but I’ll tie up the loose ends

I mean, it’s just homework I’ve got to do

Hey, look, everyone! Ten beats ’til we’re done!

Ten, nine, eight, seven, five, four, three, two, one

Paper cuts sting

To remind us that we’re alive

Scrapes heal

But leave a faint memory of the story

So we remember to tell it

But when a soul shatters

It’s a miracle if we’re alive

There’s a chance we’ll never heal

Because all we can do is hide our story

And pray to forget it