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A letter to you from me

A letter to you from me

How easily we fell in love 
As if our hearts were nothing more than paper plates at a sunset barbecue, 
Readily discarded 

I sit awkwardly 
On this throne you’ve placed below me
More accustomed to kneeling on the floor

Last week I saw Santa at the mall
Or maybe just a drunk man in a red suit 
There’s no more magic in our eyes
And that wish we made on the roof of your house was wasted words for a burning rock
We dance in silence 
I think I’d rather hear a melancholy string quartet lament while we waltz 
Walking in circles 
I wonder when we lost the magic

Twirling around the fatal stroke
Isn’t it fun to pretend we are tourists?
Looking for comfort in an uncut gem
I say I’m sorry too many times
One too many days

Your heart like a glass of red wine drops to the floor 
You step toward me 
And I don’t know whether the river beneath your toes is made of crushed grape or blood 
I only know that I broke you 
Broken for loving someone who doesn’t love themself 
I let the wind carry me, fluttering into darkness
I’m weightless now 
It no longer matters where I land 

I had a dream,
I held you to my lips
The way a smoker caresses his last cigarette
My poor dragon 
I chase you 
A fleeting moment suspended as our tongues dance across the tightrope 
Exhaling one last time 
The smoke left in your wake 

nothing escapes
your kaleidoscope heart 
with your forehead against my cheek, whose tears slip down my neck?


By KJ Richmond

A Photo Collection by Adhya Menda

184 Liberty