Hares
Written by Robin Lang
Edited by Brandon Cochran, Val Thompson, and Kaleb Knowles
i had learned from movies
how friends are supposed to be.
i thought we might have been two halves of a whole,
but we were just all of me.
we were a whole that was incomplete.
does she recall?
she was just me.
and i had learned nothing at all.
we were more than just a pair,
and yet, i have loved her all wrong;
i loved her like a hawk loves swallowing hares.
i had starved and i starved
until she was all gone.
remember emma’s party being torn apart?
we were mourning losses blooming in front of us.
i brazenly wore my empty heart,
seeing our friends choose someone else,
thus we chose each other under stars.
but we had been feigning ignorance.
we disregarded signs of our transience
despite being aware of my selfishness.
she was aware,
she was aware…
and still let the hawk eat the hare.
of all the things that i should have done,
i should have run,
i should have run,
from the hare.
i could have spared both of us.
and so she went,
to my despair,
she left behind no words nor scent,
(such was the torment of my punishment)
for the lonely hawk that ate his last hare.
i hate the things that i love and
that’s how i killed my best friend.
Robin R. Lang is an undergraduate at Greenfield Community College studying environmental conservation. He enjoys creating art and writing poetry in his free time. He can be found on Twitter @hazypanoply.
