Yesterday Words
I need to remember it
Like it was yesterday
The good yesterday
Not the one that broke my heart
But it’s hard
These days to know
The difference
It’s different
Than it used to be
We use to be
Soft words
And smiles
And while we were
These things
The end crept in
Disguised as baggage
It ravaged
From the inside out
Smiles began to harden
Hugs faded quietly to black
In fact
The darkness came upon us
Like a fog
Caressing us,
Enveloping our sense of us
Ensuring of its doubtless truth
And we believed
We began to see
Shadows where once there was clarity
Weakness where once we felt strength
It whispered to us
And guided us away
From the home that we were
And as the last of our fingertips touched
We rushed
To savor the taste of anger, and pain
To shout our truths
Harshly into the wind
To be the one who owned
The most hurt, the most suffering
“There is no victim greater than I”
Is the anthem that plagued us
That made us
Into simply you
And I
Two people
On different lines
Too eager
To destroy our ties
To be here
Is to know I’m right
On occasion I wonder
If perhaps we were never meant
To last longer than that summer
But we did
And when I cannot bear
To do anything
But remember
I remember it
Like it was yesterday
The good yesterday
The yesterday
Before
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