Let it Die

By Lily Scott

     (Spoken Word) 

 I sit across the table with a broken smile

 His head is slumped over the table

He is cold and shivering

 I've been here before  

Watching the love drain out of them

They sit in the corner weeping and pleading

I sit in silence begging them to come back to life

Last night he said he loved me

this morning he tried to take it back

I had put it so far back into my mind that I had

forgotten he said anything to me

They all do this

They love and then they die

I spend my entire life loving them

I no longer have a shield in front of me

I no longer feel the need to run and hide

They hold me for just a moment

my shriveling body begins to unwind 

my heart is mended but only for a moment

The flowers have bloomed in his eyes

the sun has risen within my bleeding chest

our lives are one, we fall in love 

boom!

I hear the thunder in the distance as i watch the lightning strike 

the earth begins to shake 

the water begins to rise slowly suffocating me 

The bugs they chew upon my flesh until he has overcome his bitterness 

the bugs they chew upon my flesh until i have left the island

I never feel free 

always chasing 

always losing 

always gone

i'm always gone

 He sits across the table with a broken smile

 my head is slumped over the table

I am cold and shivering

I must have been here before.

"Let it die," he says, "let it die."