You never looked behind,

After you went away.

You slammed the door,

Your retreating figure,

Casting shadows,

Across the snow.

I was just a little child,

When you went away.

Confusion and disbelief,

Crowding mind,

Fear and insecurity,

Filling my heart.

Both children back then,

When you ran away.

It was cold on that day,

Snow piled around.

You fled from my sight,

No explanation and no glance back.

You said you loved me.

My trust faded away.

It's my letter to you,

But you'll never find it.

You never came back,

I've always been your past.

You’re alone, you say,

But you abandoned me that day.

Those lies you told,

So many believed,

But you told them of me,

And I just can't forget it.

I relied on you, you knew,

But now all that‘s gone away.

Everything is gone from the past,

But the footsteps and scars,

Are etched in my heart.

This grudge, I long to remove.

I've prayed for peace,

This pain to be taken away.

One day perhaps,

I'll be given the grace,

Your sins against me,

To forgive in love.

I know, I know, it was so long ago.

What is so hard about letting it fade?

But until then,

Here's my letter to you.

An epistle to remind you,

You left me and I remember too.