Echoes of you (poem)

Inspired by: Echoes of you by Marianas Trench

You told me only the lonely survive,

that a love like this always ends in tragedy,

and we fought whether to escape with our lives,

but I couldn't – I wouldn't – let you go.

That night I learned the thickness of your bones,

and how intertwined life and death are.

Now the incessant beating of your heart

echoes through this empty apartment.

Stirs of whispers trail and linger:

who said – you said – I did it?

knowing accusations fill my ears,

a thousand eyes bear down on me.

I've tried to escape this crypt

only for remnant faces, fleeting traces of you

to haunt the corner of my sight,

a shadow with blood-red eyes.

I just want to make you vanish,

to have peace from the beating of your heart

echoing from the walls I call home,

repeating from the corners of my mind.

-Zero