I Once Saw an Absence

I once saw an absence

I had dreamt it to truth

A black and white story

The captor was you

My eyes remained closed

By my memory’s hold

Never much to say, not much to do

Years, days dissolve

A split second evolved

The blink finished, now what do I do?

Bring a picture to life?

Make a voice I’d deny?

This mere picture, it just isn’t you

No red coat, not tonight

Ember glow, we’re denied

Colors burst the day that i met you

When you’d speak, realize

That the brown from your eyes

Spoke like paintings gave pictures to words

I was blue, you were green

I was calm, you were free

At least now, now i know that is true

It’s a standstill today

I don’t grieve the same way

As i write I can feel all the cold and the knew

What was once full of color

Fact flipped into mutter

Whatever drained you of life, took me too

I hope my last act

Our last labeled contact

Was my visit to what used to be you

Though you lay underneath

What’s around, it just breathes

All the life that surrounds what it means

The grass so green when i lay there

The leaves pink, purple, stemming through air

Sunshine so bright that the yellow still tried

To show me that we could be alright

My eyes closed and i cried

I remembered our nights

All the flourish that made you all my rights

Til the tears took their prism

Put me back in my prison

And you returned, black and white

I once saw an absence

I had dreamt it to truth

A black and white story

The captor was you