I was parked down by the water
In an abandoned parking lot by the big port building decorated in rust
A skeleton in haunting ruin.
The sun was ebbing to its place below the horizon.
I remember this song echoing off the walls of my brain
wanting to escape the bastille of my body
the sadness like lightning down my spine
hopelessness a throbbing ache throughout my body
I remember screaming
until my throat was raw
and my head tingled
and world spun.
I remember sobbing.
Face drenched with relentless tears
simultaneously hot and cold
blurring my vision.
I gasped for relief between moans
escaping from a tortured soul.
I was suffocating; rotting from the inside.
All of this is unknown to the world just outside my car.
I don’t know how long I was there before you came.
But you were there and you tried to console me
but it was too late.
Darkness devoured me like the nighttime consuming the day.
It was too late for me.
You had to leave
worry clouding the hazel of your irises.
I don’t know how much time passed after that.
I was alone again.
I remember watching the water spill
over the soft sea grass boundaries of the marsh
and onto the parking lot
creeping over cracked pavement and gravel.
In dying sunlight
now sparse streaks of light
I watched puddles outside grow
and wished to drown in them.
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