Something below the surface
To much left unsaid as I stare at the grave
Someone died that day
Someone I could save

The avoidance of pain
Nothing will ever be the same
The guilt, the shame
It tore me apart
Still does today

The tombstone a somber reminder
Its ghosts will forever linger
I don’t know what to believe
I don’t know where the body went

the weeds failed to grow
nothing can cover it
its somewhere in my memory
etched in a fractured psyche

these chains refuse to leave me
I refuse to believe they weigh me down
Its been long enough to get over
Somehow I couldn’t pull through