• i knock on her door
    no answer
    i call her phone
    no answer
    i ring the doorbell
    no answer
    her car is there
    her dad said shes home
    no answer
    the front door is unlocked
    no answer
    her dog leads me upstairs to the locked bathroom door
    no answer
    i use my knife to open the lock
    no answer
    shes sprawled on the floor
    what went wrong?
    the needle in her arm
    the syringe
    the red sharpy
    the crude label
    meth.
    what happened?
    why did she do this?
    i shake her
    no response
    i embrace her
    no response
    no pulse
    no breath
    no words
    body stiff
    corpse stiff
    i sob
    shes gone
    true love
    gone