I walked the distance under the grey sky
Let the rain quieten my mind
The gumboots you gifted me
were meant to keep me dry
They were love to me
I knocked on your door
waited patiently
You opened eventually
and showed me contempt
Still
I was so glad I came
I couldn’t run away from missing you
But I finally turned away from hatred
Strangely
my steps were lightened
in my water filled gumboots
Tag: closure
Dream

we sat across the bench in the park
you passed me a letter written in sarlet ink
I was too afraid to read the taboo for breakup
it started to rain
the smudge of blood trickled down
marking a curse and a dead past
it was a slow death of bleeding out
youth, hope and dying wishes
Goodbyes

farewell wanna be yet never be for fear of losing the now should have never been
farewell promised to be yet could not be for losing faith of forever be
farewell the me pretended to be yet could never be for losing myself was what it would ever be
farewell all my past should have been could have been yet would never be
close the doors and let the ghosts rest
follow the guiding light to my destined to be
