The Bleeding Of A Heart

   -Katherine Hernandez

Everything you've ever known can be taken away in a second

One second is as long as a minute, and in that moment anything can change,

You were forced to cry, like you've never cried before

You even almost died, by the wounds of a love, 

A love that I told you could never be yours, but you still wanted more

You wanted it to fill you, and become you and then it finally did,

But as it did, I watched, and when I couldn't watch I cried for you

I cried because as I watched you bleed, I didn't know what to do,

The blood slowly consumed you, and all that was left was a shell

A shell of a friend that I used to know, and even though I watched as this happened, 

What was I supposed to do?

Save you?

How?

How do save someone who doesn't want to be saved?

Doesn't want to admit what's happening, even though they know that it's consuming them?

I screamed to the sky in pain, but you were condemned

What more could I do?

But watch as the heart of a friend not only bled, but died, turning to dust, and to then ashes

And when it started to rain, I cried again as the ashes flew away and then there was nothing left 

Nothing, but tears, and remembrance for what was...