Abandon

I’ve run through grass
Met the waters edge
The flame reflects in my eyes
I can’t move
My heart is racing
My breath, steady
My charred remains float on the water
You look at me in disbelief
What we’ve built
Has been leveled
My tears have been shed
They’ve already dried
They weren’t for you
I don’t know that they were for me
I step into the water
I shiver with anticipation
My voice quivers
Laments drifting to the west
You reach out
One last time
Grasping for me
But I’ve already gone
Left wading in the waters
Forever searching
For what I’ve lost

We’re left apart

Silenced in time

Yet echoes of the night