INSTEAD OF: I LOVE YOU. I SAID, I'LL SEE YOU TOMORROW.

By Caroline Walling

If there had been a warning. If someone

had made it clear.

Wrote it on the wall. Spoke

the words aloud.

Gave me the courage.

Then maybe I would have

dug deep for the words in the green of my mouth

spoke the truth before I left.

You can say alot of what might have been

in the aftermath of floods and fires and earthquakes.

And the breaking of your heart.

But that doesn’t change the Thing.

Those scorched moments that remain

in the erebus of your memory.

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