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Writer's pictureKenneth Curtis

if only tomorrow...

If only heaven was a tomorrow away,

Maybe my heart would beat harder.

I sit quietly alive; an empty pulse

Praying for an unexpected ending

Only to be disappointed with each rising sun;

I survive on stale breathes

For the sun dims each fresh dawn

And the night begins to gently caress my soul.

Each day’s meaning slowly fading into darkness

As you search for the hope of a final breathe

If only it was a tomorrow away

The tears wouldn’t feel so heavy

As they shed inside the mortal misery over me

Raining against the thoughts who befriend me

With sole visitation rights

As the hide inside my laughter,

That repents any blueprints of suicide.

I must wait here broken and alone for death’s knock.

Am I that meaningless?

For it seems even death knows not my name.


If only tomorrow,

My eyes don’t see the sunrise

My voice didn’t echo in the world

My smile didn’t resonate in someone’s soul

My ears didn’t comfort someone

And my embrace didn’t save someone,

I would be missed. I know.


If only tomorrow didn’t exist.

Memories would dance amid where I walked,

Tears would water the earth,

My voice would still echo without sound,

And my peace would be forgotten soon after.

Nothing but a memory hidden amid dusty photos

Temporarily resuscitated in retold stories,

That paint me the way I never felt


If only tomorrow I didn’t exist.

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