The Invasive Maneuver of Reading Books

I read a book about cancer patients and couldn't help but think of you... I'm sorry.

I chew gum until it is colorless

Much like your face a few years ago

                We didn't speak then

Sometimes I wonder

Should I

Have given

You

Something?

 

To send my condolences to your family?

After all I have known you forever

But

I said no words

And sent no pictures

And definitely picked no

                Flowers

 

I sometimes wonder

What it must have been like for you

But I figure a girl like me

                                I wouldn't actually want to know

                The answer

 

I am too content

With you as my midnight

Your dark eyes

                Just

                                So

           Close

To black

 

I invaded your personal space

Last night

Well not really

                In actuality I invaded it

                                Almost two weeks ago

Now

 

But last night

I read all your secrets in the form

Of a book by a stranger

About fictional people

                Living with different

           Terminal diseases

 

You once owned

And conquered

 

Now your mind is a quiet place

Where I am not

                                Allowed

To ponder whether or not

                                You really think about

           Just people

 

It makes no sense

My love for you scrawled out in pages

Of a fictional story

With an ending so vastly different

                                From ours

 

But there is always some truth in fiction

                                So is there truth

In the crossing of our destinies

                Similarly depicted by countless

Imaginary stories

                                I’ve

           Read.

Author's Note

everything here is intentional.

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

I love this story, and the way it blurts out like real thoughts across the page. I wonder if you meant "too" and not to in "to content"?

[kera moondust]

thanks for catching that I wouldn't have noticed. =)

[Lyn Anderson]

You are very welcome. It's kinda my thing. Glad you were helped.