Magic words
Can we say cunt here?
I need a word
any word
to shock you
the way the bottom of my heart
fell out
when it happened.
All I have left of you now
Is words
Your flowery
Politically correct
Diplomatic
Proper
Advanced
Elaborate fucking words.
Words that declared that we were now "us"
Words we would say at the exact same time but by accident
Words we made up that nobody else knew
We had:
Scrabble winning words
Silly words
Happy making up for missed childhood words
vulgar words
We even had:
words for dark fucking secrets I will never ever tell
words for the closet light you never wanted to turn off
words for that dumb tv series we watched
words for our selfish mothers (lots of words for them)
words for whatever god just put us here and then LEFT. (Remember the night when we decided he left?)
So can I say cunt here?
You cunt.
You left me
in a panic
desperate to talk to you
with no more words!
No words for the smell of the emergency room
No words for how long it took to get your blood off my skin
No words for feeling like I could cry myself to death
No words for screaming until my throat bled
No words for finding your other other "in case of emergency" stash
No words to lie to the police (yet they believed me)
No words for the sound of your voice when you knew I was giving up on you
No words for the look in your eyes when you gave up on yourself
No words to declare I was giving up
No words in the whole goddamn motherfucking bullshit language to describe
leaving you
leaving you in that dark apartment
leaving you in that hospital bed
leaving you defeated and spent and fucked up and alone
No words to explain why
why I still can't think about you or
why your name catches in my throat or
why YOU DID THIS TO ME AND TO YOURSELF AND TO US or
why you took all (all of it!) of it at once or
why I would never be enough to fix it or
why I hung up that day or
why I kept hanging up or
why I loved you so much I threw up on the stairs or
why I still wake up in the middle of the night sobbing or
why we ever met in the first place or
why I still love love love you or
why why why
You left me without adequate words
to say what I really wanted
something like:
I'm still with you (somewhere, somehow)
I can still feel you
everywhere in my mind
in my blood
in my brain
in my bed
in my stomach
in my dreams
in my head when you get a headache
in my throat
in my nightmares
in my heart
in my, me.
I love you forever
you cunt! Thanks a lot.