I’m on the floor kissing your feet <br />Begging you, please baby, please <br />I can’t bring myself to stare <br />Into your unforgiving eyes <br />I take a chance and glance up <br />I see the cold metal in your hand <br />My blood runs cold, I freeze <br />Darkness surrounds me <br />Cold concrete hugs my knees <br />Dust kisses my skin softly <br />Betrayal hangs in the air <br />I’m sobbing uncontrollably now <br />Red rimmed eyes pleading with you <br />I’m dangling above the icy waters of death <br />And below the dusky skies of life <br />I’m starved of air, you’re choking me <br />Gasping I hit the concrete hard <br />Please I croak, let me live <br />What have I ever done to you? <br />My hair is like an unraveled sweater <br />My skin smeared with dirt and tears <br />Please… <br />You shove the barrel in my face <br />I crawl backwards trying to inch away <br />NO! <br />The sheer force of your voice stops me <br />I look at your eyes, tormented lovely eyes <br />I try to reason with you <br />You don’t want to do it, I know you don’t <br />SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! <br />You scream, blocking me out <br />My mouth closes slowly like a creaky door <br />GO! you wave the gun wildly in the direction <br />Of escape but I can’t move, I’m frozen <br />You grab my arm and forcibly jerk me there <br />I scream as you turn the gun on yourself <br />I want to stop you but my feet have grown roots <br />All I can do is watch as you pull the trigger <br />But you don’t… <br />We’re statues, frozen like this for what seems like forever <br />Time stops it seems until the authorities get here <br />They barge in holding weapons near <br />I’m alive, I whisper <br />You stare at your empty hand, confused <br />And I realize to them it’s just another life saved <br />But to us, it was a thin line never to be crossed<br /><br />Jennifer Sol<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-thin-line/
