Just Like You

My fingers closed around her lifeless hand.
Perfect red hair, tied in braids that fell on her shoulders.

Long lashes, above green glass eyes that never shut.

Porcelain, virgin skin covered her hard body.

Dragging her everywhere she never broke,

She never broke because,

I never let her go.

I never let her go until that one day,

focused on the noises, the kids and the liquid colors.

I placed her on the window sill,

to watch the pair in the yard, on the swings.

Returning,

the black sheer curtains had been closed,

I knew she was no longer there.

Guilt sits in my stomach,

for being so easily distracted

for losing her like I lost you.

And the fact you never knew

I loved her like I loved you.