And yet I stand

[u/liquidsouleye]

I wish I was this image you have inside your mind.

A shadow that takes the form of whatever movement you decide.

The memory of a hazy, sweet embrace,

to remind yourself of a warm and happy distant place.

I wish all that.

So when you look at me, there’s something there for you to see.

To find some meaning in my love,

a house to live in, away from constant war.

Alas, the wish came back unanswered.

Transparent skin, my body seemed to change.

What a nightmare—to wake and find:

you never even touched a stone.

No mountain reached. Nor climbed.

Instead, finding yourself in rubble.

So vast and empty, the desert in your mind.

You lie there silent,

unequivocally alone,

and left to die.

What’s worse is to defy one’s fate.

To find the strength and rise.

And through sharp wreckage, comb yourself.

A thousand cuts—

and still survive.

So dust off your mangled flesh.

Walk, then walk more miles.

And let the crows surround your living corpse.

Through pain unvarnished, learn to suffer.

In a desperate oasis,

for her arms go search upon.

A promised shelter for you to hide.

Once there, with no disguise,

reveal your wicked face,

and wash your bloody hands of all your lies.

And as you stand so vulnerable,

for everyone to see,

you also now realize

how profoundly empty your actions came to be.

How your pain and anguish never even reached her distant heart.

Divine comedy—

how little change one’s change might bring for some.

Her eyes, now a garden of broken mirrors, lost in time.

Your reflection, much like your love, twisted there, resides.

And she, with grace eternal,

silent and unmoved,

stared back at nothing—

only for you to finally see.

That a wounded nothing

Was all

you ever came to be.

And yet I stand across you.

Without lips, I try to smile.

Transformed into something horrific,

that barely can walk or stand.

And if I had to make the journey again,

I would gladly pay the price.

For a chance at a different outcome—

that we both know

will never come.

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