"Left Behind" Free-Write by S.J.L.
5:23PM-5:47PM Feb. 17th, 2019
And when the smoke cleared
You were no longer here
But I still hear you in the rain and I still feel you in my tears
And I still wish you could be here
You were my antidote, my cure
I wish I wish I wish you were here
I wish I could have flown away with you
Why you had to go God only knows
But you left me here alone
You were so young and nobody knows
I saw your soul fly away before you were ever put under a stone
I felt your heart stop
My world it rocked
My soul is left shell shocked
From my head down to my toes
The painful river flows
It takes control
I just want to let go
Why did God choose my hands to be the ones to hold you for the last time?
You weren't even mine
If the timing was so right that I was there that cold December night how could I not have saved your life?
I just want to know why you left me behind?..
I'm paying my dues I'm unwriting my crimes
When those bullets flew I almost wish it was my time
In my shirt pocket I was saved by a dime
Left with a scar to tell a story of my lost soul and saved life
You whispered "how beautiful the light"
When there was not a single star in the sky that night
Darling how beautiful was the light when they took your Life on that dark and cold December night?!
The night I spent screaming, pleading with the skies..
I just wanted an answer
I just wanted to know..
I just wanna know..
I just wanna know why you had to go
Why I was left behind..
- Sam I Am, Edgar Allen Poe as my Left Hand
