Our Story Ended Poem by Jody Parker

You no longer exist
Except in tattered stories
Closed and silent
Their ink slowly fading
into the fire of my rage

Only I can go
between the torn papers
To stare at the horizon

And feel the emptyness
You gave me in exchange

for my heart

Laughter turns yellow with age
Everything fell to slow and fast

And I can't pick up these pages
Because you decided
To leave me on top of the mountain
So you could chase another dream

Your words and touch had such power
To mend me
and break me again

And I exist in a world that makes no sense
anymore
As the mountain crumbles under my feet
I know I will never meet you there
Again