i saw your face

i saw your face,

fleeting and serene.

a testimony

to the devotion

that flowed from my heart

when

i heard

your heart...

it took on the shape

of all i wanted

yet i knew you not

in the form 

that so many are used to.

we talked 

and talked

of those things you would do.

how you would

change the very fiber

of this hell

we inhabit~

the dawn 

of a new me

as twilight 

engulfed what i had become.

you were the embodiment

that i shied from

yet the release

my soul yearned for.

but fate 

has a fickle sense

of humor.

the pain was unbearable

as i felt you

pouring out of me.

from the depths 

i cried out...

my pleas became

screams 

that begot questions

which had no sensible answer

and you were gone.

the smile, 

that i never saw,

was snatched away

leaving me with the image

of what could have been...

i saw your face

and you were me.