…in my eyes
A brief moment of tenderness
then a sudden moment of pain
questioning the boundaries
existing only in my mind
I think of you and I wonder
why my fragile heart is still beating
you are lost to me in the darkness
memories just a distant echo
the line between truth and lies
shifting in the dark hollows of sorrow
lost in the shadowed abyss of time
for we were only a fleeting moment
your footsteps faded into night
now swimming in a sea of despair
the world spinning slowly
I am swept away into emptiness
your soul still lingers in the shadows
wandering in the twilight of this place
the songs of loss are beautiful
a timeless melody of pleasure and pain
the dark beauty of delusions
the emotions they evoke
our hearts still tangled together
like vines clinging to an old stone wall
dreams and reality intertwined
the weeping petals of my sorrow
scattered to the four winds
like ghostly fragments of me
ever clinging to the past
my heart is heavy with grief
now beating with a slow rhythm
that drowns out all other sounds
now I answer the whispering echoes
and open myself to the truth
for in the mirror there are no lies
and I see the ghost of you in my eyes
© Ann Bagnall
