I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately, I can’t help it. I keep hearing about people who are getting sick. Slowly dying and they can’t do anything about it. But like you used to say, we’re all dying. You said I saved you one time, one time too many. That I can’t always help people. It’s just what’s supposed to happen. But it wasn’t supposed to happen like that. You can’t just disappear and hope for the best. Your intentions were all screwed up. And you gave up, just like that. Then you were gone.
We have to take chances; that’s what life’s all about. Your hair was always styled perfectly. Always laughing with our friends.
Everything was perfect, or that’s what she pretended. I don’t know if she ever told anyone else, or if she ever took off that smile. But I can imagine what she’d say if she started talking for a while. She’d lie that she was happy, but her secret I will keep because I know her heart is broken and that she cries herself to sleep. I see the way she looks at him. It’s the way I look at Ryan. I know he promised her the world and then broke her heart in two. She thought he was the one for her and I’m sure that she still would. For him she would do anything because he’s the one she loves. But he never loved her, not like Ryan loves me. He cut her to the core. And now she searches for that feeling. She was much too young for love. Too careless and too free. But I am no different than her with the way I love him. I know I have fallen deeply in love with Ryan even as young as I may be. But my biggest fear and question is, did he ever really love her? With Ryan, I live to see his face. Wake to hear his voice. But see, with her, she lived in fear of heartbreak. She knew that if he left, she wouldn’t just cry. Because every second that he’s gone, a part of her would die. I see the tears behind her eyes. I see my face inside her tears. And I pray with all I’ve got that I’m not her in a few years.
She told me she couldn’t be saved. That she didn’t want to be saved. And now, nothing of her is. She has completely disappeared and she will not return. Memories fade. Especially the ones you don’t want to remember in the first place.
Rest in Peace Emily
September 14, 1991 - July 21, 2007
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