Whatever Helps

A Poem by Gabby Nieves

If it helps

We can leave town

Drive to the end of monotony

And free the burden of our darkness,

Escape the shadows that have consumed our creativity.

Writing this now it feels I've been missing a part of me

I thought was caged and locked away

When he left

Something's been killing me since he walked away

This emptiness harboring inside me

Now I don't even remember who he was

Just another blank face

On the vast wall of existence

But I know one thing is fact

We will all die someday

Him, you, me

So what's it worth to you,

To leave it all behind?

To lose all you think you have

Forget the mask you've created

In the desperation

To forget that one day

You'll be nothing

Response Verse
By Jack Kennedy

If it helps
I haven't been the same
Leaving you was a mistake
I suffer dearly for making such
Emptiness burst throughout

I don't know how you are now,
Just know I think of you always
Forever I will miss the old times
Wish I could come back to you.
I come back and I see your gone
Am I too late?
Who have you run off with?
Why should I be surprised?
I left and now I have lost you
Lost in the world
Mind torn to shreds
Knowing I will die one day
Without you here with me
You were everything to me
I hate myself for leaving it behind
My love for you will always be
Because I now realize without you
I am forever nothing