Are you real enough,
to make me feel your warmth
around me?
– close enough
for me to keep you
from turning away?
Can you rise above
the distances that are far beyond
what I can see?
Are you, somehow, a reality
or just a shadow of yesterday?
I sit patiently, keeping hope
that you may be a little like me
Believing the faiths of years ago,
could be raptured by hope today
In some quiet, secret place
you have captured all this privacy
My lips can’t speak of you
my infinite, my impossibility
My shadow of yesterday
Only thoughts could keep me here
Shrugged in sadness, torn by fear
Feeling your faint presence disappear
– like forlorn wishes whispered
in the night air
But if I mattered – if you cared
Wouldn’t I feel you drawing near
To me here?
Has the time passed enough,
to sway your love away from me?
And my tears, have they drowned
the sorrow that stained my heart?
The moon that we share,
Has it sunk so desperately?
Afraid to wait, is it just too late?
Did it show you I fell apart?
Could have been easier,
you got the very best of me
Songs of sweetness – tenderly,
I so easily gave away.
And I have become the wind
that swept through the path
of your destiny
I have become the jaded one
I am the shadow of yesterday.
© 2010, Caela Strong. All rights reserved.
