I wish I had the Scars to Remind Me:
No scars mar my skin
No blemishes exist from your existence
One moment you are there, purring
the next, silent for all eternity
You left me with nothing
I wish your claws had gone deep
leaving ugly slashes across my skin
forever
A beautiful reminder of you
But you left me with nothing
I wish one of your bites had pierced me
to the bone
leaving many off-colored odd markings
Something to see and think of you
But you left me with nothing
I wish the mark the vet took
that your unresponsive lolling pressed in
my arm with leftover ink had been permanent
The shape of your nose forever on my skin
But you left me with nothing
Your life is in ashes
Your love seems so far now
So many of my memories thought I
could keep have faded
Why couldn't you scar me in some way?
Why did you leave me with nothing?
