03/12/2024
In the quiet of a fading dream,
I lost myself in the spaces between the words we never said.
Drifting in daylight, I thought I could find a way back,
But the fork in the road was a dead end,
And all that’s left is the shadow of what we were—
An idea, a picture, a story told in half-light.
You’re a world away now,
And the miles between us could never be measured in words.
But here I stand, taller than you left me,
With grace I didn’t know I had,
Not in the way you abandoned me
In the dark, pretending to love me whole.
Our souls never braided together,
And now our future’s a fading photograph,
From vivid colors to a gray, washed-out scene.
I wish I could hate you,
But I loved the dream I built around you,
The world I imagined where you never left.
Your “I love you’s” hit like stone,
Each one finding its mark,
Like a gun you kept loading,
Shot after shot,
Trying to heal me with the same hands that tore me apart.
I searched for a memory, something sweet,
But all I found was the floor beneath me,
Drowned in a river of crimson regret.
I planted flowers in the soil of my own heart,
Tended them with every tear I couldn’t hold back,
But I’ll give all of me back to myself,
And bury what’s left of you deep in the earth.
This time, I’ll keep my heart hidden,
Where no one can find it again.
