Over time

Many years and months ago,
You told me goodbye.
I was hurt and confused,
I thought I would die.

Really special to me,
Not even in blood my real brother,
But the truth was;
You werecloser to me than my mother.

When you drove away,
It broke my poor heart,
It hurt deep inside,
And tore me apart.

Years past and still I missed you,
Each and every day,
It was a sorrowful feeling,
And wouldn’t go away.

I’d write letters to you,
But they never went in the mail,
I just couldn’t find you,
You didn’t leave me any trail.

I asked about you,
To anyone who was around,
Anyone we both knew,
But you weren’t to be found.

I cried for you,
Almost every night,
I kept searching, though,
It was an endless fight.

When I saw you at Lois’s funeral,
My godmother and loving aunt,
I finally realized something;
I was a burden you didn’t want.

You were doing fine,
It was right there for all to see.
And if you had even tried,
You could have easil;y found me.

But you didn’t try,
Even though I needed you,
And now I know the reason.
You didn’t even want to.

We had once been close,
In the distant past,
But it was different now,
I knew the truth at last.

It just comes to show,
That with time people change,
We were no exeption,
But it felt so strange!

I looked at you and I knew,
That I would be O.K.,
That feeling of loss I had,
It suddenly went away.

You’ll probably never read my poems,
Or evr see my art,
But knowing this simple fact,
No longer breaks my heart.

We started down the same path,
But at the fork we parted,
And, at first,
It left me broken-hearted.

And if ever in the future,
Should our paths meet again,
You’ll be greeted kindly,
And counted as a friend.