A Short Story Told

It took a picture to hold you to this

a promise kept but it all went to shit

the second best is the first to begin

the last one left in this nightmare machine

You told the world of how you would live

your life a treasure in a buried coffin

Six feet below a story unfolding

of how you tried to be anything else

a breath away from the life you expelled

she stood there crying as you were put in the ground

You told the world of how you would live

you told the lie you came to believe

Above the grass you left a legacy

did you forget you had a family?

the caring souls you hurt so painfully

as you trade this world for eternity

I'd tell the world of how you'd lived

but stories short are hard to tell

and the hurt paralyses my mouth

I miss you so and hate you for it

But I will tell your story

Until it burns my bones