The gasoline is leaking out of your bad shoulder.
It’s been hurting since you put a hole in the wall
Because she didn’t let you hold her.
Now her face is just an apparition, fading so fast,
And your head is a long lost ghost ship
Fleeing all the safe shores half-mast.
The thoughts intrude and bite down with their incisors
As you recall promising her a sure grave.
Yet – her spite knew you’re none the wiser.
Now her body is cold but you barely touched her.
You merely gave her a foolish idea…
Maybe she was pushed by a bluster?
The flies are eagerly circling your puny defences
But you have all the good explanations –
Only you can’t say it to their faces.
The road ahead spirals like your fetid self-pity
And you know you’re forever haunted,
Even if you leave her bones in this city.
-JW