Castle

A Poem by Dwepuly

A POEM ABOUT LOVE, SO ORGINAL PEOPLE!

“ Our love will never fade, and because of that I’ll let you go.”

The grooves of the couch evidence of where he slept, ate, lived away from my mother, beneath the thin ceiling of where she slept.

Upstairs, where her colossal limestone castle abides, what he spoke of in drunken babbles to me, he stares at it’s twisting long staircases he going to toil up, this is for the pursuit of love.

That’s what he wants to think, that’s the only thing he knows in his pulsing, throbbing heart, Till a relationship counselor says, you’ll be better apart. Tell me, tell me why! He wants to scream, but he says gently, why? On his cheek was another girl's lipstick, because he couldn’t keep himself to his wife. Tell me why? He knows why, but can’t say it.

His voice echoes through the boarded up windows of her castle, let me in, I’m sorry he says. Sunlight touches the secluded bedroom, grazes her through the gaps of the boards. She opens the looming iron castle doors and says.

I wish, oh god I wish, we’d be better together, but we should be apart.

My way of understanding love is that it never fades. The shades of red her face turns when she sobs in a heartfelt moment together. How she chokes on bubbly, foamy beer in hearty, ugly, laughs shared together in a messy college dorm room.

It doesn’t fade because the past can’t change, but at times you can love someone so much that you know they’d be better without you.

so you leave, he leaves.

his heart, swollen, throbbing with love, he says, I understand we’d be better apart. in the blur of his tears he stares at her as she lurks back to the broad looming iron doors of her secluded castle. the doors hinges creak as it shuts.

“I love you so much I’d rather let you go than see us drown together in this relationship we’ve ruined.”