Now I See

The year's have passed. The earth turned slow.

Since I was pulled beneath it's fold. I left with arms still full of love.

A child's breath, a promise told.

I watch from where the silence hums. Beyond the ache, beyond the rain.

No clocks, no glass between my sight. I see it all, I feel the stain.

Your hand now warms another skin. The laugh you saved now freely spent.

The speak of grief in measured tones, but I have heard what grief has meant.

She wears my robe, she stirs your tea. I remember every thread of you before the game.

I held your vows like sacred cloth. I took them with me, folded tight.

But now I see how thin they were. Soon they vanished from your sight.

Still I do not rise to curse. I do not claw at what you keep.

I only ache for what was red and what you lost to fast to deep.

For love like mine does not forget.