We Don’t Understand Each Other

- The Seasons Of Grief: Chapter II - Poem X -

I said, “It hurts,” you said, “You’ll be fine,”

But the wound ran deeper than these scars of mine

We thought love might stuck what time had undone,

The thread is frayed though, the healing won’t come

Remember the house you built for me, its walls full of light?

Now the shadows stretch endless through my darkest night

Do I tear down the past, let the ruins take hold?

Or salvage the broken, even if its touch is bitter cold?

I’m so tired of mending what never heals,

These cuts are too rough, I can’t help how I feel

“We don’t understand each other,”

My words unravel like veins under pressure

“We don’t understand each other,”

I say, with no pulse, no rhythm, no tether

The scalpel pressed sharp when they opened my chest,

Your silence cut the deepest—it wouldn’t let me rest

How could you stand there and not feel my pain,

As I bled for a bond you let drown in the drain?

My breath was shallow; my skin turned gray,

Yet you turned your eyes, left my sickness to stay

The air hangs heavy, thick with regret,

There’s nothing that could’ve been done, no moment that I’d forget

“We don’t understand each other,”

I say, it’s a diagnosis we refuse to discover

“We don’t understand each other,”

They told you, my heart wouldn’t beat for another

How many times can we survive the same war,

Before I stop believing there’s anything left to fight for?

I gave you my strongest, my fiercest attempt,

Every battle left me so spent

You had my empathy, my endless pleas,

But I was the lone soldier, bleeding, left unseen

I lay on the operating table, my chest open wide,

My heart beating slowly, as you stand beside

The blade carved a hard truth, where faint love used to rest,

This was no cure, just another failed test

“We don’t understand each other,”

I scream, a louder silence than any thunder

“We don’t understand each other,”

There’s no context left for me to wonder

Now I’m fading, saying “Do something please,”

“Help me out, please fight for me”

The fogs to heavy, it drowns out my cries, too distant to see,

I’ve accepted that you’ll never choose me

“We don’t understand each other,”

“We’re two hearts beating out of sync forever”

“We don’t understand each other,”

“I’ve finally accepted, now that I’ve severed”

My chest won’t rise, my heart won’t mend,

The monitor signals, that this is our end