She finds herself on yet 
another road to nowhere. 

Obstacles and stumbles 
have now scarred her knees,
have now scarred places 
that were once untouched,
places that he once filled 
with a beautiful nameless light

Tears blinding her eyes while sobs
now silently press past cracked lips,
for those lips to part and taste such a loss
is the most human thing but does nothing
to preserve or relinquish what was never 
supposed to try and survive on its own.

The blinding sun beats her down,
draining away the last of her strength.
realization is her only friend,
the only hand to take in this new dark.

The need to let him go and find a new place
tortures her mind as a haunted loop,
the same images flashing over and over
without any words to be said,
nothing to take in but the bare
painful essence of unchanged memory.

Her feelings are drowned out
in a storm of promises and lies,
proof that words do such 
violences to us at the end,
proof that the heart will
crumble like the dirt back roads.

A shattered soul crying out in hunger, 
but no gesture can slake this need
rooted too deep to be fed
starved for a moment that 
will never come to bloom.

How foolish she feels 
waiting for the sun
to cease his torture,
waiting on the storm 
within her to claim 
all that she is tonight.

Taking away her 
last painful breath,
her lungs were once filled
with his air and light,
and to no longer breathe in
such sweet luminescence 
hurts more than she can say.

Who can save her,
before she loses the fight?

Embracing the solitude 
in her own personal hell,
maybe she’ll find peace
beyond this road to nowhere.

The sun is now calling
to take her away,
to imbue her being
with so much more,
a new unfamiliar light.

Will she give in this time
or continue to fight 
yet another day?