You were planting flowers on the soil that you buried me in
I was hopeful for thinking you were digging me out.
That you were here to retrieve me,
From underneath this graveyard of a front yard
That you let your hooves trample upon recklessly.
My nails have chipped from scratching at the surface.
My lungs filled with dirt and rock and clay
I can barely say a word from here where my body lays.
Only your name, only your name -
Only your name comes out
If I had told you to put the knife down kindly,
Would you have let it?
If I had screamed less viciously and thrown my armor on the floor more gently,
Would you have let me go?
You didn't know the body had a life when you were dragging it
On your floorboard - the blood still red and rich as rubies
From a heart that pumps its way into the ears of those
Who'll press their heads on your unholy ground
I should have known better than to trust a perfect person
There's no such thing as you
There'll always be a flaw, a telltale sign
And even in your crime, there lies a smoking gun
The body that you buried has not gone cold
It's still alive
And you can hear my beating heart in the silence of your home,
In every knife you use and in every coin you own
In every cloth you wear and in every lifeless stare
You will hear me in the breeze, you will see me in your dreams
Your footsteps will always seem to match a heart that beats and beats
Your crime will come out soon,
In this garden that's a tomb,
The flowers that you planted over my dead body grew
Into mouths with stems and petals and it broadcasted
My heartbeat to the neighborhood,
To the bus stops, to the cops
And when you hear the sirens and the police dogs sniff me up
When my hands stick out the soil and yours are bound in cuffs
I hope you look into my eyes and see
That this heartbeat never stops
It'll just beat on and on and and on
Even when you're gone.
Read more poems like this in my poetry collection "If I Can See You When I Pass Away." You can order it via https://aidanbernales.carrd.co or through my social media accounts: aidanreuel on IG and Facebook.
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