echoes don’t bleed

i’m about to write  

just need to find  
the black pen  

right  

it’s here  

echo  
in the room  

how do you begin  
when everything  
is already broken  


black  
for the scars  

for hands  
that never reached  

for words  
that bled out  

behind screens  

we stopped  
feeling consequences  

we became voices  

loud enough  
to wound  

and empty enough  
to not notice  

silence  
that cuts  

love  

without a pulse  

no one remembers  
how to see anymore  

only echoes  

we stood there  

watching it happen  

layer by layer  

darkness  
learning our names  

it didn’t arrive loud  

it slipped in quietly  

through screens  
through words  
through us  

and the truth?  

no one wanted  
to feel it  

wait  

i take the red pen  

red  
for what still beats  

for what refused  
to die  

for hearts  
they tried  
to silence  

yellow  

taught me  

to burn  

without asking  

without shrinking  

without permission