Those Simple Words

Those Simple Words
By Todd C. Stanley

My sanity now spent, I lie here with the recollection of you here by this shattered dream. The brilliant smile that arched across your beautiful pale face will never leave my mind, haunted by the thought that I may never see it again. Like crumpled paper, it will never be perfect again. To this day, I will never stop fighting, love worn like a battle scar, wearing me down until I fall to my knees and beg you to kill me before my heart does. It’s so hard to stay up; it’s the burden so hard to carry. I want to carry it with me always and share it with you. Please don’t let me die here now, don’t let all of this be in vain. Those simple words, “I love you.” Echo across the void, spoken with my heart and spirit so that they may reach your ears and lift your heart. I want you here with me now; I want to stop the clock to watch you lie here with me while those dazzling light blue eyes send me to dream of your voice speaking those simple words, “I love you.” Kiss me once and keep me still, kiss me again and kill me. I’ll die here at your feet with the red of your lips, like the red of my blood now spilt at your feet. Watch me now on the ground as I begin to fade away. My last breath, my last tear, the last beat of my anxious heart is all I have left. I give it all to her with those simple words, “I love you.” Dig out my grave in the deepest place of your heart and bury me there. Your heart is where I want to be for the rest of forever. Remember that I’m always in your heart when you stray from sanity, remember me when you smile, that smile that sparks new life in the heavens above us, remember that I will always be at your side for every fleeting moment, and remember those simple words, “I love you.” …Always.