"i remember"

I remember her so vividly;

a picture in my mind

lies

and it reeks of

devastation-

a portrait of the love

we lost but never knew

the bones hold the fever

of the dreams we never had,

the bones hold the storms

we pretend don’t stir within.

Rushing waters whisper

and the scars become silver

until the clock hits midnight

and we begin again,

a rebirth,

something new

but something better,

a glimmer of hope

or an illusion of optimism?