Not an Ode
I stood in the doorway yet another evening and every footstep I heard told me that it may be you. I burnt yet another candle yet another evening, and I waited till it burnt out because it reassured my doubt, that you will come back just as suddenly as you had left. I looked into the horizon and watched the sun go down the moon watched me .. like a hopeless soul who wouldn't stop waiting for someone who'd never return The howling wind blew the candle off and chided me for being so juvenile I refused to listen just the way I didn't when everyone said , you'd never return I looked them in the eye and said , he would one day. I don't have memories of my first toy, I don't have memories of sharing my joy, I didn't find you when I stumbled in life, you were still missing when I had my worst strife. when I look back at the footprints I left in time they only remind me how you were never there when you should have been right here. you left me standing alone as I sta...