SHATTERED

S h a t t e r e d

I never knew you were made of glass

Until today.........

I thought you were made of steel and iron

And could take on a lion or a bear

Until today..............

 I never knew what  a rose petal I was

Until today....................

I thought I was the strongest  woman in the world

And could stand and fight with the baddest of the bad

Until today.......................

But today I saw myself being carried away by wind

Unable to stop myself from floating and flying

Not of my own accord but by someone else's

And I was terrified..................

Floating, floating, there on the wind like a rose petal

Trying to hold onto anything I could grab

But there was nothing to grab onto.

And I just kept rushing away carried by that angry wind

All the time watching you standing on a distant shore

Watching me watching you

There were tears in my eyes at the thought that I was losing you

At the thought that I would never see your face again

And yet at the same time, you seemed like a perfect stranger to me

And someone that I didn't even know and never had.

I watched you climb a mountain then that appeared on the shore

And you stood on that mountain as you watched me

Being carried away by the wind,

And you screamed out my name, once, and you jumped

You jumped off the mountain top as I watched helplessly

And you shattered into a hundred million pieces there in the sunlight

And covered the shore with crystal shards of yourself, of your heart

And all that you were and  ever had been.

And suddenly the winds changed direction

And carried me back to that shore

And dropped me there upon the shattered pieces of you

And I lay there, a tiny rose petal, who had loved you with all it's heart

And I wept like a thousand hurricanes

Full of tears for you and all you'd meant to me.

Until one of the shards of you fell on me

And tore me to ribbons

And we were both shattered in that one moment

And both stunned at the realization

That we were not as strong as we thought we were

We were fragile, so fragile

And we were dying.........................

And the world would go on in it's never ending cosmic dance

Without us.

©by Voo

May 25. 2019