today i placed you
in my box of death –
closed the lid –
allowed your darkness,
absence – from my light…
bundled up,
with ribbons of regret,
i laid your sorrow by the door –
safe outside the fortress of my heart.
silent –
contained inside my chamber of refrain –
i watched the raindrops attach themselves to windows – closed,
clinging with cold deliberation to the glass…
today i placed your memory
where the shadows grow –
waited without sound –
allowed the silence audience in the arena of despair.
today –
i lingered for a moment more
upon the shore of your demise.
said my farewells –
loosened chains of regret,
and in that instant of your escape,
this captive heart,
realized,
for the first time,
how it felt to be finally set free…
standing too close to the edge 