The Blood & The Bones

i have finished this book, put down the pen

no longer able to write the story of what was or could have been

all these dogeared tear stained pages we keep rereading

this is where we end this and set me free

i don’t want to be these words, this poetry

this ache, this all encompassing need

this never satisfied desire, this sadness, this sorrow

a perpetual heartbreak novel

checked out but often forgotten it had ever been borrowed

that you didn’t want to keep reading

so I wrote the last chapter, the last note, the last words

and finally admitted what we really were

just another love story with a tragic ending

transcribed in my blood as I lived and breathed it

a drowning with promise and pain compilation of letters you’ll never open

returned to the shelf with the binding mostly broken

with i’ll love you forever in every drop of ink

and the very last line of these tattered pages reads

Goodbye

LL

the blood & the bones