Bella Imperia: The things I don’t say

A love so bright—
it burned down to nothing.
The light,
gone.
Only darkness now.
Oxygen,
snuffed out.
No breath.
Only emptiness.

My vision narrows.
My hearing—
underwater.

What did he say?
I don’t understand.

Again.
It can’t be…
again.
Again…

Why me?
Why now?

“I don’t love you”
rings
and rings
and rings—

around my head.
Before.
Again.
Again.
Again.

-Bella Imperia