I Am Saying Goodbye
I am saying goodbye
To the hurt that you
Dug into my ribs.
The pain was sharp
And it had settled.
The days bled
Into the unholy nights
As if there was
No beginning and
No end. The stars
Never seemed
To show their faces
As if they turned
Their backs on me –
A lost cause that had
Poured my soul
Out to someone
Undeserving.
I only remember
The screaming,
The endless questions
That dripped from
Your righteous mouth,
The nights full of
A relentless terror.
I won’t let you
See me burn again.
Dawnell Harrison has a BA from the University of Washington and has been published in over sixty journals and magazines. She also has three books of poetry published Voyager, The Maverick Possee, and The Fire Behind My Eyes.
Copyright © 2012 by Dawnell Harrison
Randomly Accessed Poetics 
Confessional poetry in a memory’s subjective convention in a language’s plenitude of verbal
intervention.