“Where did he go?”, she cried in her sleep
“How could I know”, her torn heart would weep,
And yet in the shadows of her bleeding mind,
That haunting reminder – she can’t help but find.
The cement stains her hands from each brick that she’d laid,
As she stares at the wall – all alone in the shade.
Then the shade turns to darkness, the darkness of sleep,
For oblivious moments – she’d not have to weep.
The blanket of nothingness covers her mind,
Til her tortured subconscious begins to unwind,
It creeps thru her being, not a feeling is spared
Distorting so sadly the love they once shared.
With a magnified image of him standing there –
Silently pleading, “Just show me you care!”
If only he’d known – to look thru her mask,
He’d know, though she tried, it was too much to ask.
If only he’d seen the stark fear in her eyes,
Or the desperate need she’d tried hard to disguise.
His image then blurs as he turns away,
He can’t seem to hear – as she begs him to stay.
Her lack of emotion was too much to bear,
When all he had asked is, “Just show me you care”.
Then her pain wracked emotions again start to weep,
“Where did he go?”, she cried in her sleep…..