Winter’s Parting Words

imagination
it’s all i can take
to remember
that you’re not
whispering my
name
and you aren’t
looking at
me
–
you’re looking
through me

is it really me you see?

the tables are
turned
just like they
were
one thousand
times before
and i won’t
fool myself –
no, not again.

and you’re looking
down at the ground
and our bodies
are in sync
and your heart
is lost
and it
just can’t
be found
near mine…

… and
you still feel
the scalding flames
from embers
long since
gone dead…
… i sometimes
think i can
feel it too…

…but you
were always
so far away
trapped inside
a winter storm
and i was here..
… i was here, all along.

so it took you
this long to find me?
when i wasn’t really
lost…
when you really
weren’t looking…

… and here you find me,
in full bloom
and here you find me…
…but time’s run out….