I won’t sleep.
Instead, I’ll lie awake & pretend.
I’ll pretend this began the same,
yet ended pieced together.
Pieces never meant to ebb & flow away.
But life keeps its promises a secret
& watches through jaded eyes
as I pretend to sleep.
Love keeps secrets of its own
& so did you.
Words you should have never said were leaded.
Thrown in my direction,
only to drag me down with them.
Drowning in a sea
of all the things we can never change.
Alyssa Chaffee 