Some people say
“I wouldn’t go back for a million dollars,
I wouldn’t ever change a thing”
🚧🚧⚠️🚧🚧
Those people I can only believe
have built up slights as sins
They have climbed their
mountainous molehills
and laid waste to the happiness
that accomplishment can bring
🚧🚧⚠️🚧🚧
I would go back in
half a terrified heartbeat
even if it meant
coming out the worse for it.
The chance to run
The chance to fight
The chance to save another person
from the same dark plight
it's worth more than happiness,
it’s worth more than life.
🚧🚧⚠️🚧🚧
I would die on the vine
to save my brother’s life,
but I couldn’t, and I didn’t.
It isn’t that we wouldn’t
go back if we could
If you had the chance, I know
Every one of you actually would
🚧🚧⚠️🚧🚧
It’s a comfortable lie.
Something you say
to the people around you
so they know you aren’t always
looking behind
Ready to bolt at the
first sign of a fight
🚧🚧⚠️🚧🚧
Something you say to yourself
so you believe in the version of you
that you keep coming home to
at the end of every trialsome day
K.B. Silver
About the Creator
K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
Enjoyed the story? Support the Creator.
Subscribe for free to receive all their stories in your feed. You could also become a paid subscriber, letting them know you appreciate their work.
Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.