Lights Off

You were so breath taking, so wrong for me. You had already given up on caring about everything before I came and the thought of being that reckless and unmindful of the future with you drew me into you like ink into paper. You were so lively so I wanted you to paint me effervescent, I wanted you to paint me happy, smiling with rosy cheeks. I desired to be vivacious and disparate in your pale blue eyes. I thought being with you would make me brighter but all you knew was never ending darkness, so our days grew so pitch black that most of the time we couldn't see. We couldn't see how we were hurting people and destroying each other. Making many mistakes we laughed, kissed and danced around in the dark, knocking over and crushing everything we once had, I still cry when I think about how we were laughing the whole time we did that to our love but when the lights came back on we were unable to fix the mess we made and we couldn't stop crying. -Ciara Evans