The last trial

In my defense...

I wouldn’t have said a word ever

It would have followed my last breath

You did not dare speak a word

but offered a myriad of sentences.

How dare you talk of breathing when

you drowned my thoughts of any bit of reason

I may have had left.

In my defense...

You shouldn’t have spoken to me

You shouldn’t have even looked at me

Call me to the stand then.

Let me give my words to the court instead,

I do not want them lost

for they bore my mind and my soul.

Let them be witness to the honesty within them.

I dare not look at you again, but know,

If I´d go blind now I´d had seen everything I must.

In my defense...

We shouldn’t have ever met

We should have gone our separate ways after first impressions left indents on our thoughts

May the witnesses recall

all the gazes exchanged and all the memories shared

for they saw the light first and the darkness second.

Though we may have bruised our thoughts

and dented our hearts

I do not regret the scars we gave each other.

They may be all I will have left of you.

In your defense...

In my defense...

I can see why you didn’t leave

I would plead guilty to anything

if that meant that I could stay

just a little while longer.

(As an answer to @SaffiyaSmith ´s poem)