i exit your life,
the same way i first came in,
unseen, unheard of,
like a silence that creeps in,
like a harmony that fades,
like a giant that crawls.
you never saw it coming,
you didn’t realize for days,
you were too allured by the noise,
too busy chasing legends and ghosts,
too much, too far,
intoxicated by the dwarves who stood tall.
you always were biased,
to the best and the worst,
why didn’t you realize?
the in between was yours,
the shadow prince of the crutch,
the knight of the broken horse.
never was i the one,
to claim your soul by storm,
to take your heart with hail,
or to light your life with fire,
i was the drizzle that stayed,
the rain that outlasted the rainbow.
my arrival was unannounced,
a cold intrusion; reckless and bare,
there were no seagulls singing,
no trumpets or church bells,
you just turned around ,
and i was there.
a child’s tale, you thought,
a fleeting whisper, you heard,
you were oblivious,
to the whisper that outlasts the noise,
when the high and mighty fall,
children’s tales outlive legends, my dear.
but whispers do fade, children grow up,
there were no funeral marches,
or trumpets of doom,
i left like i came,
the silence that creeps,
the harmony that fades.