Another Year for Renee

I know it's over a month since the anniversary of your passing but I did write this near the day and just haven't posted it until now.

Just

Just let me live

Please, just let me

Let me just avoid

A permanent lethargy

I want to eat when I’m hungry

Drink my way into a good night

Hear the sound of a woman’s breath

as we lay side by side

Let me find comfort

Let me find joy

Let me be the hero

in a child’s story

Let me live today

and carry it to tomorrow

Let me live because you can’t

Let me forget this sorrow

I’ve seen people torn

Ripped apart by life

Guts splattered on the floor

Mercy holding the knife

I’ve seen depression overtaking

souls that had happiness

I’ve seen the cave go darker

individuality dead to the masses

I’ve seen you on my doorstep

years down your face

crying for me to come back

a ghost accenting my disgrace

Afraid of what you are

and uncertain of what I am

Please, just let me live

because Death, she can’t