Heartbreak A La Angelou

The sun has come.

The mist has gone.

We see in the distance

Our long way home.

I was always yours to have.

You were always mine.

We have loved each other in and out of time.

But the sun never came. I lived in darkness, only comforted

On the days you deemed appropriate, enslaved,

Dark matter, you silenced my sorrow when you promised to leave

The light on. The mist, it stayed, covered my mirror

In shadowed thoughts of the future when the present was damn-near dead

And I was all but living, kept alive by your lonesome sentiments,

A rose by any other name would be as deadly as your heart

Was to my soul, sweeter than your skin, acid, untraceable, my death

Came at a quarter to three when my heart stopped.

The distance became a dot to comfort me in my journey past your

Home, to my own bed where I spent the nights fighting tears back,

The cold remorse of steel against my skin felt warmer than

Your voice these days, it promised me eternity, lost,

And I just wanted to feel loved again, or once.

The sun never came.

The mist, it stayed.

I can’t see in the distance.

I don’t know my way.

I was never yours to have.

But you were always mine.

We once loved each other in and out of time.

~ Kai Alexander Means