Climb Down

June 15, 2018

I climb down all these steps

One by one I trudge along

I think of you and then it pains me less

My painful battle up these flights of steps

I ache and break every single day and night

To climb to where you stay atop your tower

But now I just can’t continue up this flight

I’m lost in thoughts about my lover

I didn’t notice my foot slip

But I felt the fall

Down and down I went

Two steps at a time

I wipe blood from my head

The floor hits me hard. There is nowhere to go. Nothing to do. But feel the pain of you.

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