HORROR Poem: Withering Bride, by Marina Torres

Why did you say you loved me
When it wasn’t even true?
In that lavender-orange
Afternoon
Why couldn’t I be there for you?

You said you wanted me forever
To have, to hold, to cherish
So why, when I kissed you
Did you push away?
Why did you turn my red blood
Blue?

I loved you deeply with my eternal soul
Why did you need my heart
To smother, and choke, and sleep?
For you alone to look upon
For my feelings for only you
To be gone?

You killed my heart which beat for you
Broken now and forever, my love
Which was just for you, why still then
Did you leave?
Why did you
Ignore my grief?

Why did you take that secret knife
That perfect autumn afternoon
And set my blood free to dress my skin?
The cuts erasing our special day
Why didn’t you simply send me
Away?

The heart I had couldn’t save me,
I perished soon after
You left me on the floor and soon
You walked out the door.
Why?

Why darling? Why did you leave me
Why did you need to
Deceive me?

So much pain you gifted me
After so much dulcet acting
You filled my days with lies
Why did you bleed my tender skin
Why did you break my sad kiss
When I begged you
For forgiveness?

Forgiveness which I do not owe
I didn’t know
Nothing I had done had caused this
Why did you fool me and love another Instead?
Why had you gone to sleep
In her naked bed?

Why did you leave the blade in my chest? Why did you make tears in my dress?
My skin? My heart
My darling, why?
I bled so much for you and cried
Too much to move
Your devoted, dying bride

I tried to call you back, pleading
I pleaded for your love to
Return
Why did you prevent me from crying
When you cut my throat open
And roses fell like I had bled
What had you smashed against
My head?

Why didn’t you tell me why?
We were engaged and happy, I thought
When my last tear fell, cold and gray
Weren’t you there
To stroke it away?

Why did you hurt me before I could say,
“My only darling, you are the light in
My cold life, the cure to

My fear and strife
You make me smile
When I should weep
You carried me to bed
And warmed me in my sleep

You danced with me that night and
Kissed my heart alight
You told me you would
Do anything for me
You let me hold you hand and think
How lucky then I was, how
Blushing pink I became when
You whispered,
“Let’s watch the moon.”

Still you spoke,
And I believed
Your words unfurled
“I love you my darling,
You are my world
Your smile is diamonds and
Your kisses are pearls
I love you dear, I love you so
Never worry me
And never let go.”

Why did you answer me with that face? And why did you break
My bones without so much as a word?
Why did you let me feel assured
Then made me look into your stony eyes?
I couldn’t see you anymore
Nothing,
But my own demise

Why did you ask for my hand
Why did you wish for me to make you
The happiest man in the world?
Why did you dress my finger with this beautiful jewel?
Why was I such a fool?
Were you always so cruel?
The man I knew
Wasn’t anything
Like you

He died with me there in our hotel suite
Lying still on the floor
You left me alone, broken in two
Nobody heard, saw, imagined
Or ever knew
Who it was that murdered the poor Woman in that room,
And why now does she
Appear
At the window
Every autumn afternoon?