I can remember the feeling
As if a nostalgic memory
Even though I held it
Only a moment past
It used to be so simple
As easy as moving my eyes
To look at you
And feel the comfort
Of your delicate warmth
Perhaps I considered it too much a luxury
Something to never change
Growing under this familiar blanket
No matter what I went through
I felt a shift
Almost subtle
Of this weight I hold
While once I could share it with you
Now was held in solitude
A lonely burden
I find myself thinking back now
Of these times past
Wistful in my old naïveté
Believing my past would reflect itself
I feel it most in this reflection
Where before
I would see you standing there
Next to me
Never leaving hold
Allowing me to be strong
You would ask me these things
Of where I perceived such strength
When all along I wasn't strong at all
As the one asking me held the answer
I look sometimes
Through the chaotic forest in my mind
And wonder
How I once believed
You would be there to see it clear
It's in these thoughts I find myself
Honored for the time I had
Solemn for the times now gone
Even if it was only a moment past
Aug 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018 at 12:17 PM UTC
I can remember the feeling
As if a nostalgic memory
Even though I held it
Only a moment past
It used to be so simple
As easy as moving my eyes
To look at you
And feel the comfort
Of your delicate warmth
Perhaps I considered it too much a luxury
Something to never change
Growing under this familiar blanket
No matter what I went through
I felt a shift
Almost subtle
Of this weight I hold
While once I could share it with you
Now was held in solitude
A lonely burden
I find myself thinking back now
Of these times past
Wistful in my old naïveté
Believing my past would reflect itself
I feel it most in this reflection
Where before
I would see you standing there
Next to me
Never leaving hold
Allowing me to be strong
You would ask me these things
Of where I perceived such strength
When all along I wasn't strong at all
As the one asking me held the answer
I look sometimes
Through the chaotic forest in my mind
And wonder
How I once believed
You would be there to see it clear
It's in these thoughts I find myself
Honored for the time I had
Solemn for the times now gone
Even if it was only a moment past
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