Silver Rings to Rust
Allison Salgado
If you leave me today,
I would yearn for you again.
Leave me today and we’d never get back together
Is what you’d say.
Hope is what we lived off of
Like a dove flying for the first time.
All the long red-faced nights to laughing so hard you can’t breathe
Would all be over, at the drop of a pin.
The flick of a dime.
Heads you stay, tails you..
The what would be awkward silence into
Sweet melodies of the wind.
The warm cozy nights we had together,
Why would you leave that?
Wouldn’t you want more?
Do you remember when that was?
At our wedding four Novembers ago.