Before The Ending Came
Before you were mine,
I cut like glass
someone broke on purpose,
a blade—cold, clean, unforgiving.
Your smile made everything feel softer.
Don’t make me regret this, Tessa.
You’re the only one
I could ever speak to like this.
It’s like static laced with lightning—
a drug wired in our veins,
and I love that you’re hooked.
You know it’s for life.
You’re untouched, angelic, rare—
like frost clinging in August heat.
I don’t know how to explain it—
just that if you ever moved on
your absence would hang in the room
with me
like rope pulled too tight
to hold another breath.
God, I wish you were here.
I wish I could hold you,
but you’d make me forget how,
so I think I’d just stare.
You’d look at me sideways,
like you’re searching for what I see—
but I swear even the stars
burn with envy for your face.
You don’t even know you outshine them,
but you’ve always known
our love was written there.
You say the strangest, sweetest things.
Like you were born humming
a secret song only I can hear.
The others might tune you out,
but I’d turn the world to ash,
just to hear you stutter—
like the thought of me
closed its hands around your throat.
They never deserved the sound of you.
You know why they hate me.
Because I made you feel something
they never learned to give.
Because the way you said my name
made theirs disappear.
They told you I’m dangerous?
What did you say?
Why is your voice breaking
like I’m holding a loaded gun?
Don’t cry like you’re the only one bleeding.
Tessa, listen—
follow that pull you feel,
like it's the only way left.
And don’t let your hand slip
when I’m this close to the edge—
as if releasing your touch
wouldn’t take my last heartbeat with you.
Don’t look at the monster they carved from my shadow.
Don’t hear me on their lying tongues.
Don’t let their fear decide for you.
You know me—
I thought I knew you.
You said you’d never run
when the sirens got too close
You said love stays when the street goes red.
Just—breathe, for God’s sake.
No—
Don’t let them take—
Are you still there?
