Torn From the Pages of My Heart
The Usual Unhappily Ever After
I ran…
Into the fields
Of new beginnings
Beaming with moonlight
Like I always do.
One time, I stopped.
A hand had grabbed my finger.
My body flailed briefly.
Invisible arms caught me.
My hair, running with the wind,
Hid my face from the world
So I could look without a veil.
For a while, time stood still.
I listened closely.
Someone, a nagging feeling,
A vaguely begging thought I caught.
Had I left something, someone?
In my hurry to run away..
From all the pain.
I had masked myself with ignorance,
Eyes fixed on a new horizon,
A new shore, a new sun
While he, perhaps, stood beside me
Waiting to be seen.
Unaware I was looking at
A home I could live with him.
I had dared to test
How far I could run from… him
But… no matter the distance,
A part of me never really left him.
I had mourned over..
All the words he never heard me say,
All that love he never felt.
All the moments that got away
All those times… I had wished he stayed.
Sometimes, I mourn him still.
Into the fields
Of new beginnings
Beaming with moonlight
Like I always do.
One time, I stopped.
A hand had grabbed my finger.
My body flailed briefly.
Invisible arms caught me.
My hair, running with the wind,
Hid my face from the world
So I could look without a veil.
For a while, time stood still.
I listened closely.
Someone, a nagging feeling,
A vaguely begging thought I caught.
Had I left something, someone?
In my hurry to run away..
From all the pain.
I had masked myself with ignorance,
Eyes fixed on a new horizon,
A new shore, a new sun
While he, perhaps, stood beside me
Waiting to be seen.
Unaware I was looking at
A home I could live with him.
I had dared to test
How far I could run from… him
But… no matter the distance,
A part of me never really left him.
I had mourned over..
All the words he never heard me say,
All that love he never felt.
All the moments that got away
All those times… I had wished he stayed.
Sometimes, I mourn him still.
