she lies with me in a dream I wrap myself around her breaking the shell I cast 'round my heart breaking the spell that put it to sleep the night she left me for him the night she left me for dead.
The for dead by Rick Belden, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
I have never written a poem about that night. I think I should.
For me, writing one like this one is like putting the capstone on an arch or pyramid. It finishes the experience, or some aspect of the experience, for me. I got lucky in this case as the poem popped right out of a dream more or less fully formed, so I didn’t have to put much work into it.