Someone you have wronged

Silence That Lengthens Distance

One minute your tone is ripe
Inside me somewhere it resonates
The next, well, in the next it’s gone
Left to go elsewhere and away from me
Or maybe it is I that has gone
Maybe I’ve been gone all along
Reminiscing and not living
What a way to be, what a way to be
Trapped in the here and there
All but lost to the present
Until what I had against my lips
Disappears with a vengeance
Then I open my eyes and see
The tonal waves of silence piercing the sky
Even deeper still, piercing my heart
While the distance lengthens
I remain in repose for your coming
In the late shadows of my sighs
I forbid myself to lose you

No Different


I am made fallible by my own speech
I opened my mouth and I defined myself
One minute I'm absolute
The next I am transparent

Where before I was separate
Now I join the masses
Becoming one of them
The greedy, the selfish, the hypocrites
Those who fit the mold
Rather than break it

I no longer impress
With my true colors expressed
In one instance progress is dismantled
As a wall is constructed
Where trust once flourished
There are no words to undo
The destruction that has ensued

I'll save my breath in hopes that silence heals
Because my speech is the shovel
By which this hole has been dug
What to fill it with now but regret
Since my apologies haven't worked
And my words are as good as dirt

I will live with this self-induced eruption
While coming to terms with my own corruption
Bidding farewell to the illusion of perfection

I don't like going to your grave
I'm sorry, I was always a shitty brother and that hasn't changed. Between my and the world you were my rope. I still pray for you though when I lost you I lost my faith, you finally being happy is my biggest hope. And though I'm now the same age as you when you passed, you'll always be my little big sis and that rage, thankfully didn't last. It's been two years and still most days I wake in tears, the hole you left is too big too fill. I cried the day you told me about your illness, the beginning of my sorrow obviously painful to witness. But you put my head in your lap and let me sleep, stroking my hair, you let me weep. I couldn't let a stranger do it, so I lowered you into the ground myself and covered your grave, though it didn't seem so deep. like you, I wish I was brave. My biggest regret, apart from leaving you the in dark and the rain, is that our last words to each other were in anger. I'm sorry but I can't go to your grave anymore. I can't think of you laying there decomposing, it's still too much for me to handle. I keep thinking of that night I left you, with mud on my hands and with only one candle.
I'm sorry little big sis, I love you. I wish you saw me turn 24, I'm your age now x

Thank you! I'll try not to be smug and mention that I won something in every comment I make

Well done, Dystopian, it was a strong entry.

Thank you :)