The Call in the Night – By James Carroll
They say you never forget your first
First love, first heartbreak, first kiss..
But you were my first everything.
I’m not scared of the dark anymore
Because you took me apart in broad daylight
I held you in my arms like a god could hold the sun
I lived as Zeus, yet I fell like Icarus.
Drowning in your absence and the silence of unspoken history
Once living as one in tandem with you
Now I am only burned with the memory of us.
I am a whole person no more
As I watch you decorate your walls with
The parts of me you took when you left
And I must stay away
Never answer the call in the night
They say you never forget your first
