Letter for Lost Loved One
By Sean Ray
What dream will you visit me next,
Where you sing falsetto unchained melody,
Where holy water blesses the hands that used to hold you, priest,
Where you tell me the skies don’t cry for us all,
That they only bleed blue.
What prison will I wake to,
Where I can only write letters to you,
Where I have to kneel to hear you,
Where sand and salt is the only place for you
Outside a tomb.
What do you think of me now?
Future father, graduating scholar,
Forgiving out of love,
Breathing not born of spite
You tell me when I see you,
In the dream you visit me next.
Our Secret Melody
Mallory Smith
I wore your love only on my cheeks
The only place I could
Because out in public,
no one understood
Why couldn’t they let me love you?
My paper bore the secrets
Of our love filled bed
The paper’s wet from my tears
the ink spread
Will you ever tell them the truth?
Now,
I wear your anger anger on my cheeks
Anxiety lingers on my chest
Our fights on my lips
I lay my fingers on the piano
Each key a hymn of our anger
I no longer play our soft melodic tune
Ever since you left me
Silence fills the room
I lay on the couch and stare the ceiling
I weep in solitude
I rip the frames from off the wall
And burn them in the fire
Even the smoke reminds me of you
I burn our sheets of music
There’s nothing else for me to do
I can no longer play
All I had to sing about was you