My Letter

Letter by Eva Piper

I wrote you a letter

That I don’t think you’ll ever receive

I’ll lie and say it got lost in the mail

Or that the waves took it out to sea

I’ll jot my hurt into pretty nullity

And scramble the words into a puzzle

I’ll write the draft anew each time

And create something pleasant to the eye

I’ll hide you within my writings,

Hoping it’ll give me a sense of closure

Wondering why the universe made this happen

Blaming it on a pair of honest lovers

I hope you collapse into the arms of my words

Tying a ribbon of hope around your neck

Pulling tightly into a corset to keep you in check

I hope the words I wrote for you stab like a knife

The blood dripping onto your white canvas

A canvas painted over and over and over

Lies covered up by your disclosure

The envelope seals

And I feel a tug

A heart on my sleeve 

Waiting to be unstrung