I Met You a While Ago

I don’t remember if it was in the hallway, If it was in a bench on the park during a holiday, I don’t remember the time, nor the place, I don’t remember the scents, nor any other face, I just remember you, I just remember that I met you a while ago. Please forgive my short memory, and my poor eloquence,

Please forgive my lack of imagery and my ignorant awareness, But the reason I don’t remember vividly the world, Is because it disappeared the moment you appeared, Because the idle nothing became only remarkable to the light of your everything.

For once, for a simple glimpse of light, You gave me your sweet sight, It felt like I was blessed, I was impressed, That when I realized what I just assessed, I saw that day, time broke down, And now that I saw that soul in front of me I only answered with a smiling frown, Because I had realize that even though I had you in that moment, I had already met you a while ago.

In that simple reflection of a possibility, A world opened to my mind’s ability, To see and build what we could, To shine in any way we would, I saw you and I said yes to an opportunity, To forget my scars and forget my own punity, I tore down my walls, and saw you break yours, Preparing for that road of truth and love in our course. It was amazing to think… to know now, how despite feeling so new, I had just met you a while ago.

But it was just an eclipse, As I said before… a little glimpse, I was happy to live that wonderful dream, Not to hug, or kiss, or lay holding hands looking at the stars, But to feel for a moment how there was a soul that connected with mine.

Now you are gone, a ghost, And your absence feels like an evil frost, Like a blaze of winter crashing into my skin, Killing my body, my heart, my soul.

Now the nights feel cruel without you, I dream awake more than I wish to do, Now there are nightmares in the day, More feelings than I’m able to say, I want to rest again….. But you are not by my side.

You left like autumn, or summer, or any other season, There wasn’t any warning, nor any reason. I still have a letter engraved in my memory A distant promise, a silent melody, I still have words… words to tell you, words you never let me tell you. Because you looked away, And in whatever inside despair, started to treat me like when I met you a while ago.

Like a stranger… Come back… And let me calm that storm in your mind. Let me try.

Mask

I can see you, yes, you Liar, liar, hidden truth, Cryptic armor, labyrinth skin, I finally discovered your sin.

I don’t want to judge, I don’t wish to scare, But only to understand what you’ve hidden well, You laugh it off, you push it down, You make them believe you are as happy as a clown.

But you drown.

And I can finally see what burns you, More than raging fire it is senseless hollow, Nothing fills you, nothing feels true.

You are alone, shivering in the darkness, Set apart, misunderstood by your likeness, You hate yourself, you hate the world, But it is because no one has valued your soul.

You feel unrequited, unloved by the ones you care about, Distant, rejected by everyone around, Laughed at, forsaken by their normality, Manipulated, weak because of your morality.

But you’re wrong.

Beneath all that scarred mask you formed, I see a ruptured heart, a clear picture, After all your lies, your act performed, I can finally admire what they injured.

And I’m sorry, because as you I once was broken too.

It may be hard to hear, Unfortunately you have lived in fear, But now I can say certainly, My dearest friend… here you are fully, Being truly, speaking openly, believing genuinely, loving completely, standing proudly.

It is you.

And to you I say frankly,

It is the beauty of that unique smile, And the pain of those heavy tears, That make you shine.