STRANGER

Stranger do I know you

Come closer 

Let me see you

You seem to be 

A faint reflection

Of a mirror

That broke long ago.

Stranger

I remember 

All you did was speak

And yet I staggered back

I had nothing to hold 

And so I fell.

Stranger 

I remember 

The pictures on the wall

That I ripped

Burned

Tore apart

Until I stood in ruins.

Stranger 

Do you remember 

The white wedding dress

That lay to gather dust and dirt

Too scarlet 

With the wounds that bled.

Stranger 

I remember

That day 

We stood in the rain

A lost world between us

And we 

At the desolate edge.

Tears turn fire

They always do

Until they flow to the valley 

Some call abandonment.

 

Stranger 

Run away 

Before its too late

For in this hinterland

Fire burns 

Even the small things 

Away.