All I Ever Needed

All I ever needed was for you to say
“Let’s go”
“You’re the one I want to escape with”

I can’t count the times you saved my life
With the headlights

Some night again
You drive
I dream
And think of stories I want to tell

Ours is unexplainable
How did you see past all the anguish and rage?
When I was just fourteen
I met you
Fate took me

And we made it past twenty five
Even though I feel buried alive
My twin flame flickers but doesn’t die

I think I’m addicted
To the notion
That it’s just you and me

We know our secret selves
Like we know each other

Couldn’t

They say that refusing to forgive
Is like drinking poison
And expecting your enemies to die

Your enemies are gone
And still you died by suicide
Sip by sip
Figurative or literal
The toxin was in your blood

And I remain
Furious that you are gone
But between you and me
It just hurts
Like I have been left in the storm

I pleaded with you
Don’t leave me alone
And like that moment in the past
That we rarely spoke of
You couldn’t listen