Highway Poem by shami giles

I wish all the lights on the highway could show you that I love you’s do not make you stop


I wish I could drain the numbness that is inside you
Unfortunately I cannot


Your addiction shows me suicide it is the darkness that blocks out the light


This highway takes you away from me every waking night


Whenever I look at you I feel lost within


This highway resembles your addiction but this addiction cannot compare to where my hurting begins


I wish I did not have to chase you on the endless highway


I wish you wouldn’t plug your ears


I wish that you could hear everything I say


I wish you would not promise to quit your addiction everyday


I wish I could leave your room and know that your okay


Yet I see more pills and highways when I enter your room


Your room is not a room to me


It is a maze of broken promises and empty stares


Your highway lets you escape the captiveness of reality without a single care


And every time I exit I feel no love is there


I wish you could love me as much as your highway, but every time I ask you to stop


You never see it my way


Your highway is so blank with no beauty to be shared


I wish I could walk with you through your journey to recovery unfortunately I am scared


I forgot who you used to be and scared of who you’ve become


I’m scared of your highway I’m scared of the loneliness I’m scared of the depression coming back to haunt us again


It’s hard to look you in the eye


It’s hard to see you getting high


It’s hard to say hello and five minutes later goodbye

it’s hard to see the truth when I know it may be another lie
It’s hard not to cry


It’s hard to see you die


if you die ill be all alone, there will be no more of you in the family to brighten another day


But still we will lose you to your empty highway