I knew your scent from a lifetime ago

Drawing me closer without being caught

You have wafted past me in my dreams

And I’ve followed you

Hoping you would come back

Hoping you would stay this time

You’ve been in and out of my fairytales

The what if’s I craft for myself when life becomes routine;

when life gets real

My secret hiding place that won’t be still

I wish you would,

Just once

I thought you could be my person

The one to help me sort out the mess I’ve made in my mind

But all that’s left for me is acridity in the space I held for us

I wish you’d speak,

Though your words hurt me deeply

Your silence hurts even more