Speechless

He left me mid-sentence

During an unfinished thought

And just at the break of

A fragmented sentence

It happened in a brainstorm

Ideas: never fully conceived

But they escaped on his gasp

And he collected their letters

Now asleep in my nightmares

As I watched them tumble --

The unspoken words

Drafted rough on his exhale

Abandoned between syllables

Where his words spilt in two

And just like my heart --

They were erased too soon.