You were the contrast
between the darkness
that grew under my heart
and the danger
that ran through my blood-
veins that wouldn't touch
oxygen without the remembrance.
I still feel memories,
my sleeves snagging
on all the seemingly
harmless edges.
And how wise men
continue to nod at me,
watching as my shoulders
are hunched over,
searching the pavement
for permanent footsteps,
as if I always deny
what's missing gave me
breaths to live.
Time can't break me;
it won't make me free.
[It will only make me
freed from your love,
a sentence no evil deserves]
I cannot call
the world back to me
for even your shadows
cannot be proven-
but I dream of them
and I know you weren't
the lie they said.
You were the one
who saved me
from the slave of silences.
Because without you,
I'd never know silhouettes
and how they made me fly.
