Original: Midnight In an Empty Bed; G
Title: Midnight In an Empty Bed
prompt_in_a_box: Round #6
Prompt #9: Why didn't you tell me?
Word Count: 257 (According to MW)
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Fandom: Original
Pairing/Character: POV of the speaker
Summary: A poem like short fic. One is left to wonder how they could have protected the other...
I lay in the bed,
Wondering how I got so far.
Staring into the sky,
Out the window I wish I could go too.
I reach beside me,
Empty like last night.
How long had it been,
I barely think before the pain hits again.
I find your picture by our bed,
Standing under the sun, smiling and happy.
The smile strikes my heart,
How I wish I could roll over and hold you.
But you haven’t been back,
And I have heard you may not be.
One word not spoken,
And have I lost you forever?
Sleep has eluded me,
I get up and sit on the edge of the bed.
I hang my head in my hands,
And I once more ask where did I go wrong?
I had pledged to love and protect,
And you managed to still avoid and not say much.
I had given you everything,
And am prepared to give even more.
I cross to the window,
And lean against the sill, watching the stars.
I wait once more,
Knowing you have left and I failed.
You needed protection,
But were too proud maybe to say.
You needed to stay by me,
But I was working too hard.
I understand,
How someone could love you.
I understand,
How someone could fall for you.
But to know,
That someone threatened you.
But to know,
That someone took you from me.
I let a tear fall,
Hitting the wall I scream.
Not for the last time,
I think, why didn’t you tell me?
prompt_in_a_box: Round #6
Prompt #9: Why didn't you tell me?
Word Count: 257 (According to MW)
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Fandom: Original
Pairing/Character: POV of the speaker
Summary: A poem like short fic. One is left to wonder how they could have protected the other...
I lay in the bed,
Wondering how I got so far.
Staring into the sky,
Out the window I wish I could go too.
I reach beside me,
Empty like last night.
How long had it been,
I barely think before the pain hits again.
I find your picture by our bed,
Standing under the sun, smiling and happy.
The smile strikes my heart,
How I wish I could roll over and hold you.
But you haven’t been back,
And I have heard you may not be.
One word not spoken,
And have I lost you forever?
Sleep has eluded me,
I get up and sit on the edge of the bed.
I hang my head in my hands,
And I once more ask where did I go wrong?
I had pledged to love and protect,
And you managed to still avoid and not say much.
I had given you everything,
And am prepared to give even more.
I cross to the window,
And lean against the sill, watching the stars.
I wait once more,
Knowing you have left and I failed.
You needed protection,
But were too proud maybe to say.
You needed to stay by me,
But I was working too hard.
I understand,
How someone could love you.
I understand,
How someone could fall for you.
But to know,
That someone threatened you.
But to know,
That someone took you from me.
I let a tear fall,
Hitting the wall I scream.
Not for the last time,
I think, why didn’t you tell me?