• you’ve left the shattering form of yourself far behind,
    even further behind than you left me,
    now you watch me shatter into a thousand pieces,
    you try to walk away from my suffering but you can’t,
    because you see what you were and what I am,
    in this moment you draw closer to me,
    you look down at me with kind eyes,
    slowly you pick up my pestilence,
    tossing it aside as you dig for a sign of life,
    soon you find the remains of my bleeding and broke heart,
    you gently lay it in shaded grass,
    in this cold heat of a dead world you place my pieces where they belong,
    I feel you sewing me into a whole person again,
    you stop to seat my now quietly beating heart where it once was,
    in your strenuous activity of rebuilding you smile,
    then end the work as you grab my hand and pull me to my feet,
    together we walk to those we truly love.
    my happiness is yours to keep for always and forever,
    to be your shadow nevermore...