You're Distraction...Free

I look at the rose in my hand, its deep blood red color is a deep contrast to my pale hands. It's so fragile so soft. Just like you...used to be.

Of course, just like this rose's life, I came a plucked you out of a world, not of your own accord, but of mine. You said you wanted it but I don't believe you now. Your body, to young to know what it wants. Yet, your mind so flourished and old, told you what to do, where to move and what to say. Everything lad to what happened. Yet, I still feel it is my fault.

My hand squeezes the rose, not even fully bloomed, tightly in my hand till I can feel the pedals break. Another thing like you, you were not yet ready for the world, just a bud, yet you took it head on...And came out broken...

The wind, that has been dead, picks up and slaps my open shirt against my frame, yet the sting I do not notice as my dark eyes fall upon the rocky shore below. Its rocks beckon to me. I throw the pedals of the rose in to the swift moving waves. Just like I had you. I had thrown you in to the torrent sea we call life. And just like you the pedals get swept away, never to be seen again.

My eyes sting of tears, my throat constricts with passion. My hair is blown every way but out of my sorrow filled face.

Then soft footsteps come up from what it seems faraway. I turn in time to see you run to me. I catch you and feel you tears on my cold chest. They warm, yet, burn at my soul. My tears fall also.

Your cloak whips at my back but like my shirt I fell nothing. "Don't," you whisper. I pat your soft, wild hair.

"I have to..." I whisper back. Your face looks up at mine your eyes, red and unbecoming to your peach face, showing you have cried more then what is now shown. I cradle your chin then pull your arms away.

"NO" you scream and try to get back in to my arms. To try to pull me away from the cliff.

"You have your whole life ahead of you..." I whisper and pull you to me for a final soft kiss then I push you away and I fall.

Tears fell away from my cheeks. And I fall upon the hard rocks. My body now gone... And you're distraction...free.

By, Stephanie Scott