ThisDeafeningSilence

I'm fighting the urge to stay awake & counting hours until I can say  everything that I wish you'd known   yesterday, tomorrow, today. You can see in my eyes I've got to say  everything that's been on my mind  since the first day you looked my way  the other day, the next day, today. Here goes nothing. I couldn't bring myself to say it yesterday. And tomorrow is much too far away. So now all that's left is today. What I wanted to say was... ...never mind.

I remember that night you pulled him off of me I thought… I thought maybe I'd never seen anything Anything As beautiful as you Just the way you moved All furious and lovely and wild I remember the way his blood speckled the carpet And there were lights flashing Red and blue and blinding Casting stark shadows against the snow And you were barefoot They had to restrain you When they arrested him You'd already broken his wrist But I think you wanted to kill him I think they thought that, too I remember kissing your knuckles Because he'd split your lip And I couldn't kiss you on the mouth We took you to the hospital afte