You Are a Memory
Melancholy beats
Slow piano plays
deep soft voices
Singing words of anguish
Memories flow, as the river floods
This ebony face once again the flooded streets of heartache.
Smiles of bliss when your pain was not an issue
Your embraces, your kiss, forever stained on my memory
Hoping to wash it away with the downpour of rain,
I love you though I don’t want to
Remembering these words, I spoke, only to have it unanswered.
Memories of you, only having to miss you longer than I have known you
Feeling unglued, worlds crashing, pain surging
Hollowness, forever an invited guest.
I search high and low through the night in hopes to find
remnants of you like shattered glass,
in blinded belief that I if gather these shattered shards
piece by piece you will return to me.
Bittersweet memory of your tender affection,
of actually wanting to be with me.
I was not a toy, waiting to be pulled out and played with
Or a set of matches waiting to ignite your fire
You saw every flaw, every cracked stone, my hidden bones of worthlessness
You never ran
You loved me with ease, like breathing air
You are a memory that holds me hostage inside of my head, inside of this body
A memory in a far away reality, that once existed
Filled with unspoken love, and heartfelt memories.
Copyright © Debbie Walker | Year Posted 2022
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