six feet under

bury me deep if you must.

let the soil fold over my bones.

let time tear me apart slowly.

but understand this

it won’t just be a body that will decay;

it’ll be a heart

that carried so much love and never emptied completely,

so many almosts,

so many words it never got to say.

all that tenderness i kept coiled inside me

that’s what will fade with me

not anger.

not bitterness.

just love,

that never quite found where to go.