#neonlightaesthetic

Censored - Caitlin Vogt

White walls

White light

White coat

White lies

White incisors

White sheet

White knuckles

White heat

Deep thought

Deep sigh

Blue collar

Blue tie

Red river

Red meat

Red vial

Red cheeks

Black ice

Black eye

Black water

Black sky

Countdown

Countless...

... Numb.

...Narrow.

... Nothingness....

Come out from that hiding place you made after those days

When the glass was not half-empty

And we hadn’t yet deciphered the hieroglyphics

Of the English language.

I pinky promise that I won’t hurt you,

You pinky promise that you won’t let me,

And of all the things I’ve learned in life, the most important:

Never go back on a pinky promise.

Is this a rhetorical question?

The doctor is sorry for being two minutes too late,

The journalist for having to type the obituary,

The psychologist for losing a patient,

And I for finding irony in putting our soles between our feet

And the dead of winter.

A child has lost his mother,

A husband, his reason to live,

And I – I  believe that I have lost nothing,

That I will never lose anything…

“Daddy, does heaven have a phone?”