by S.E. Ingraham

Created on: January 03, 2010

Maybe If Only I’d Known

So silly our fight over cereal

And the sun barely up

You’d cut yourself shaving

Again; I remember the blood

Still oozing through the paper scrap

As we avoided each other’s eyes

Still you bent to kiss my lips

And I, stubborn as always, turned

So caught what you proffered in my hair

Caught also, the hurt in your eyes

As you straightened to leave the house

When the door clicked quietly behind you

I felt that old sadness in the pit of my stomach

And almost got up to chase after you

Like in the old days – I’d call, “good-bye”

And, “sorry – see you later darling?”

Maybe I sensed? If only I’d known...

Perhaps on some level I did know

When you weren’t home at your usual time

I knew you hadn’t gone for ‘one with the boys’

No, it was with no surprise, I opened the door

To find the police – if only I’d known

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