What took so Long? by Delaney Lindley

In the darkness alone
I saw him
In the moment of loss
I became enveloped in him
When all the stars had seemed to cut out
He shined
Brighter than the sun
He took me from that dark place
And I've seen it
Now and then.

He stayed by my side,
For many nights
And kept the darkness at bay,
Until I woke one morning
To the cold and lifeless void
To find something
Had taken him away.

The flowers once bright and blooming
Now wither and decay
The shrivelled petals cascade over me
And I'm hopeless to brush them away
I think I see him
But the petals continue falling in my eyes
I run blindly through a labyrinth
Trying to find the thing
I miss
That I lost

And I can't help but wonder,
Did he run away?
Willingly get up and leave?
And that knowledge
Makes me stop
And suddenly
Everything is effected
And crumbles around me.

The girl I once was changes,
The beliefs I held so dear
Fail me
And there's no trace of him here

Instead I see him happily
Living his life with someone else
Holding his family closer than me

Why was I so easy to cast away?

And so suddenly I'm back standing alone
It's still the night
I'm still in the end
I don't know if you were ever here,
I don't know if you were ever mine.

Why is everything the same as it was?
How does life go on the way it does?
It seems to stand still just for me
Just for me

As the world falls away around me
The ground gives way beneath me,
I can't help but wonder with relief:
"What took so long?"

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What took so Long?
by Delaney Lindley (Age: 19)
copyright 01-29-2005

Age Rating: 10 to 127