do you know that i needed you?
do you even care?
god help me, i tried to tell you
i yelled over the rain
that had fallen on that roof
on the first day of summer
but you didn't care
you still don't
and
you
never
will



could you hear me?
did you even want to?
or was the rain too loud for both of us?
maybe it was me
maybe i should have screamed louder
i wanted you to know
but never did i think
my words would be less than enough
now they wisp out continuously,
like breath on a cold morning,
lingering only for a second,
never being that important

- t.b