You Promised
You lied, I cried.
You died, why oh why?
You promised we wouldn’t be like Romeo and Juliet.
One cut that’s all.
No 2,5,6,8 oops! i hit my vein.
Blood everywhere on the floor.
I’ll take 2 pills.
No 4,15. 20 pills are gone.
Bye bye world i’m so done.
—Marilyn Tapia
(2013)
