Elegy 

wherever you are now

 

My soul wanted to join the stars;

feel the cosmos kiss the goosebumps on my body.

Maybe I’ll sink into blissful oblivion.

Maybe I should just get help.

 

I want to give up, and

throw my body to the flames,

just watch me burn.

I’ve had too much tonight.

I’m high--thinking about you--imagining 

the look in your eyes when you loved me.

How your touch extinguished my pain, 

subdued emotional conscious thinking. 

 

But the reality is you are gone; 

I am left to wonder

where you are now and why 

as children, we could see lightning bugs so easily, 

but now, as adults, they’ve hidden 

from all of us.