Alyssa Howell Poems

You told me you would never leave
and now I’m all alone, brittle boned
As I grew older I wondered if I could ever go back and stop you from leaving
My heart grows colder by the pain of losing you
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Am I to be saved
from the heart-breaking, despair?
The air filling my lungs is nothing but
pain and the substance that fatal to life
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Feeling the numbest in my heart from the loneliness of the pain
I’ve felt this for so long, it’s eating at me
The insecurity of thinking what I’ve done wrong in my relationship
Instead of what I’m doing right
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Imprints of bloody hands stain the glass as I look at the mirror
My wounds are deep inside for everyone to see
If they even cared
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The footsteps of two running children
Laughter that subsides into yells and screams
I seemed to freeze in place and hyperventilate
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