Let Me Spill These Words

Let me spill these words

Something you may know

When love leaves

It feels like concertina wire

Slicing skin

In every direction

Tangled in its web 

Gasping for breath

On a mountain peak

Anxiety haunts

Rips

Releases

Reels

Tumbles

Over and over

Reminding you

The person you’ve

Given so much to

Has taken your life

As if you needed reminding

Lungs collapse useless

Splashing alone in an undercurrent 

Of a stormy sea

And you learn

That there are those that love

and those that are loved

You envelope

Feelings, repressing

Each moment slowly

In your minds grainy film projector

Puzzled to make sense

The mistakes

The endless efforts

Of undying devotion

Trying to hold

Water through hands

Leaving you in a puddle of tears

On cold wood floor

~ Eugenio Saenz Jr.