LOVELY BONES

Your laughter reverberates throughout my bones...and Oh! How my bones ache from your absence! Many times I 
have allowed myself to question the purpose of our friendship...I chastise my erratically inquisitive mind! How dare I, a desolate being, to question Fate? No, I must not allow this reckless debate...And for your name's sake I must break every law, defying the idea of boundaries and walls! For you have already crossed them all...Yes...how vividly I do recall...my contagious smile your own did cause...and as I breathe, momentarily pause: I allow my mind to ponder thoughts...such blissful thoughts, the memories! of everything you meant to me!...and you still do! And I refuse to confuse or misconstrue the way I truly feel for you! Lust has exhausted: Love blooms...and I know you would make a handsome groom but I am merely a Corpse Bride: Eternally doomed. Your youth is invigorating, quenching, refreshing! A beautiful blessing! Such perfection reflecting! Have I too many years senior to your miniscule days? Have I surpassed your newborn wisdom, or have I simply passed away? Do I haunt the cemetery in your mind? A ghost in the graveyard of what's left behind? Yet when you conjure up yesterday, my face you will find, no matter the distance or the passing of time...But wait...I am alive! Did they not tell you that I have survived? Life radiates gorgeously within my green eyes! Do not let them feed you those blasphemous lies! I love you! I love you! Don't you comprehend? I want you forever! My lover! My friend! There is no need for an end! This is just the beginning! We have so much to defend! They all thought THEY were winning! Warning came, then destruction but amidst the debris breathes a liberated you and a rejuvenated me! We are free! We are free! Let's rebuild our home! Let us excavate the grave of our Lovely Bones...

-Kelly M. Gregory-???