You crafted a shrine for me,
adorned me with wings,
elevated and sacred, untouched by your secrets.
Your last chance at redemption,
a sanctuary where you hid from yourself.
Your perfect lieβ
an illusion of salvation.
Once shattered, your adoration
twisted into disdain.
The hand that shaped my wings,
became the force that broke them.
And now, you watch me fall
from the heights you once placed me upon.
Yet I release you, I forgive you,
Love, a quiet thread that ties us still,
A spark woven into the fabric of time,
Never truly gone, but transformed,
gently fading
into the glow of what we were.
I return sometimes to those moments,
not with longing, but with reverenceβ
like that stolen kissβ
unexpected, breathless,
the words "I love you" spilling from me,
uncontainable, truthful,
your arms, holding me,
an electric hum between us.
This is how I'll hold usβ
in the warmth of what we were,
not in the sorrow that followed.
When you remember me,
let it be the quiet depth of my love that remains,
the warmth of my hand resting softly on your
cheek,
the steady, unwavering gaze that held you,
unchanged by time.
Let that be what stays with youβ
not the deafening silence that followed,
not the weight of what we lost,
but the light that we held, even just for a moment,
so close to perfect but fragile.
Not perfect enough.
Oh how we love the ones who can teach us both heaven and hellβ¦
