It was like sunlight
on my skin
that woke me sleeping.
You said you loved me,
I was yours
for your safe keeping.
I loved you then,
I loved you all along.
You went to play my heartstrings
like you always knew the song.

Dark returned
when you were gone,
and you're still going.
All that used to
keep me warm
was knowing
that a part of you
had loved me all along.
The silence of my heartstrings
soon became the saddest song.

In waiting, I found sun
upon my shoulders.
It felt almost like
your whisper
in my ear.
It warmed my spine to tingling,
like you'd told me
the words I just as soon
would never hear.

My mind is wide awake now.
Thanks for leaving
me, with lessons from
the fables you proved true.
My heartstrings did fall quiet
when you left me
but the next time they are played
won't be for you.