Ink & Interruptions

I’ve loved you from the shadows

Every year and

Every day

I’ve watched your soul change

Grow soft and 

Start to fade 

You were powerful

And brave 

Alive and unafraid  

But time erodes 

Corrupts

Withers and decays

But, I love you

The you that

Shimmered and flared

Exploded

With colors wild and raw

Your soul on display 

Now you sit stacking bricks

Weighed down

Drifting and dimming

Your essence the price to pay  

I beg from the shadows

Keep all those pieces of you

Tossed and scattered

Forgotten with age

Everything that you were is

Now kept at bay

I still love you, so I’ll wait

For you to rise

To climb

To soar wild and untamed

Taking back what is yours

The discarded dreams and

All those hushed hopes

I will wait in the shadows

Whispering

Calling

Hoping you hear 

Watching and

Waiting

For you to draw near

For you to remember

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