Tonight Do Us Part

Cameryn Tepper, Grade 11

She told me

That it was nothing personal

 

Trust is as fragile

As an empty

Glass bottle

 

But it still hurt

Like the sharp edges of the mirror

She couldn’t stay away from

 

And there’s cuts on my hands

From the times she held them

 

And they sting with salt from her eyes

 

When the darkness comes back

I will be there

 

But nobody ever told her

 

I turned off the lights