I am Sorry

Remember me?
From that night at the party?
Some time last year?
How could you forget?

We had drunk too much.
You had stumbled away.
I sat by the fire.
You did not come back.

I went into the woods.
To throw up on my own.
And that's when I saw it.
What He had done.

You were on the ground.
Your skirt past your knees.
He was still there.
I ran away.

I am so sorry.
but I would have come back.
I think I might
have tried to kill Him.

But as I tried,
You met me half way.
Took me into the house.
And took the knife from my hand.

And with that same knife
with which I would have killed
you opened your wrists
and collapsed on the floor.

We sat there for hours.
I clenched at the wound.
And begged the blood to stop.
Remember me now?

You were just thirteen.
I was twelve.
When He took you.
Both too young.

I am sorry.