Anthology

STRANGER

I dissolved in your past.
just an afterthought of
what might've been...

i ceased to exist in your heart-

as your love

as your flow'r.

the years took

on their toll and

I wilted in the dusk.

and reluctantly

I found 
myself fading
into a memory...
though words
were not uttered,
you have left me.
though I fought hard-
I never could have 
won this battle.
and like the faint 
shadows
of ghosts lingering
I have become.

 yet my scent

stayed in the air

for you-

yearned for you
with the faint hope 
of being remembered;
but your calloused
heart will never allow it.
and as you do-
would just let it trickle
down from the palm 
of your hand.
grain after grain,
year after year-
spent in empty stares.
I know now
that never will I be
the life of your heart,
never will I be the 
source of your joy
or the source of that
 curl on your lip
but here am I reduced
to a mere phantom
of a past life.

by kaye