Love Poem: Scarlett Rivers
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Written by: David Lustrup

Scarlett Rivers

Scarlet Rivers--by David Lustrup 2016


if you saw my heart tonight
you wouldn't recognize it
trodden trampled torn apart
before i realized it

shredded hanging bleeding
tendons torn and tattered
you were everything to me
you were all that mattered

and now im drowning in this blackness
circling the drain im going down
where is the end to all this madness
this misery is so profound

memories play like movies in my mind
kissing your lips so bittersweet
little short films playing constantly
tear jerkers on repeat


and id give my torn, and tattered heart
for a bright tomorrow, where were not apart
and id sell my last drop, of blood you see
for a single smile, that was meant for me

under star filled skies, in the deep dark night
i remember you, in the pale moonlight
with a million stars, shining in your eyes
how much i loved you, you never realized

as i pull the trigger
as i hit the ground
flashes of your face fly
as lights are dimming down
life is fleeting now
as im bleeding out
let the rivers flow, the rivers flow, scarlet rivers flow now.