As time goes on you grow further,
the colors I adored slowly bleeding out.
What used to be intimate chats
sharing music, singing together,
offering advice, words of comfort…
Are now complex games of
teasing, people pleasing, and
a forced sense of obligation.
◓
You never changed though.
That warm boyish grin,
glittering eyes when you talk
about your boys,
your shy nervous laughter,
all the same…
but there was a shift.
◑
As your audience grew
So did their demands,
unrealistic expectations
they wanted you to fill.
It became less personal
more catering… and the distance
expanded, almost unbearably so.
◒
My desperate chase to see you, hear you
slowed as the pieces behind the mask
became scarce, denying my thirst
to know you… in turn, killing a piece of me.
Your back that was within my sights
Is nothing more than a speck in the distance now.
◐
Nothing is the same as it was
Let’s hope my heart can keep up
because my brain has already given up.
The familiar comfort you offered me
is like a time traveler's tangent,
it exists somewhere we
can't go back to anymore.
About the Creator
A. Nguyen
A writer at heart who wants to share my works. I want to evoke emotion in people when they read my writing but I won't ever know if I can, if I don't put anything out into the world so this is my first step :)
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