Poem: The saddest day

The saddest day was when I saw you smile
And realized it wasn’t me that made you.
To see, in your eyes, that I had walked alongside
All those weary miles
But that, even when you took the hand I extended,
You pretended. And I…
Carefully, excruciatingly lied
So that my heart would feel the hope
Only you and I knew had not existed
In the hollow of the soul I used to call mine,
In the shadows of the tears I cried
For you, and only you, even as you
Now walk hand in hand, without me to keep in step,
Even as my hands remain empty
And forgotten.