Plagued By Memories

I thought the layers of dust had settled over what used to be the togetherness of 'us,' and buried were our last tarnished traces. But today, I found your pictures in an album and my emotions started playing tricks on me. Thought I heard echoes of your timbered voice and even imagined your footsteps in the hall and then it stopped... When I recalled that you'd fallen again, by choice but this time I continued walking, leaving behind the memories of 'me and you.' They'd returned unbidden as they often do after being hidden away for years. Your barks of bitter words were spoken in haste. Each epithet laying waste to what had been love. Verbal daggers were lethal weapons and your voice threw them in brutal battle and then it stopped... Because I'd left, but emotional scars remained. I thought of them as gravestones, each marking the end of 'me and you.' We've both moved on since those dismal days but there are times when I still feel you near like when I hear piano notes in a song about a love like ours, gone miserably wrong. It hurt when I tried tearing you from my heart. For years I tried to drown out the sound of your laughter, the touch of your hand and then it stopped... My emotions were swaddled in melancholy blue remembering the music you composed for me... the unfinished symphony of 'me and you.' Now, sometimes I wake, and the night is too quiet. By habit, I reach for you across the bed then hang my head and bite my lip, licking the sanguine drop, I've drawn. The taste of salt is on my fingertips after wiping away tears I thought were done. On nights like those I shudder in angst and then it stops... When I remember why I finally walked away and relive in my mind what you had done the night you fractured the memory of 'me and you.'