Bleeding Out: A Pantoum

by Spencer Gallup

I bled out in the snow after you left
the attack from you was all so sudden
we were walking, and then I felt the pain
I fell onto the snow surface, screaming.

The attack from you was all so sudden
but I did see the knife and your grin
I fell onto the snow surface, screaming
I felt my soul leaving from my body.

But I did see the knife and your grin
why and how could you do a thing like this?
I felt my soul leaving from my body,
and I knew you were going to leave me.

Why and how could you do a thing like this?
We were walking, and then I felt the pain
I then knew you were going to leave me
I bled out in the snow after you left.

Spencer Gallup (he/him) is a poet and a legal assistant from Mississauga, Ontario. His work has been published with Four Tulips Publishing and Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal. He writes and explores themes of nature, mental health, disability, authenticity, and autism. His Instagram handle is @poet.sg.