You can’t abandon life

It’ll go on without you

People will keep laughing

The sun will still shine

The ocean will continue to wave

Animals will stay wild

You can only abandon yourself

And you, my beautiful

Deserve to laugh

To have the sun shining on your face

To wave back to the ocean

To join the animals and be wild

You hope for a story of lovers separated,

Miles placing barriers around their hearts;

A tale of determination and romance,

A reason to believe in never giving up on true love.

Hope can lead to deliverance;

Yet here, disappointment will prevail.

There will be no distance between lovers,

Only a gaping hole between mind and heart.

Fooled by a name given for something indescribable,

You received a recital of distance of another kind.

One that is terrifying to speak of;

And this is why I write.

She lied upon the fabric that once cradled her delicate being;

Regrettably no longer a place of comfort.

Uneasy from clawing at the memories;

Crawling, ferociously, out of her skin.

Experience has placed her upon a bed of thorns,

Invisible chains adorn her wrists.

With thoughts of disappearing to a place,

Where the pink peonies await.