When your white, graceful wings carry you away <br />I feel trapped, as if I was in under lighted labyrinth <br />Each wall is a reflection of you, and each mirrored hand <br />Outstretched in the form of an arrow <br />Only pointing to another reflection, then on to another <br /> <br />Endless reflections of your pale face, your heart lifting eyes <br />I see you smile, I hear your heartbeat, I watch the tears flow down <br />And around me, I smell you and can feel your presence everywhere <br />But still your absent, missing from the larger picture but somehow still <br />Managing to be the frame <br /> <br />I reach out to touch you, to caress your splendor <br />But halt when I feel the deathly chill of the smooth and hard <br />Slowly lowing me hand, clenched into fists <br />I stagger forward and throw my weight at the mirror <br />Only to watch it crack everywhere and nowhere <br />Randomly and chaotically, the devils way of karma <br /> <br />I snap back to your eyes, to see that their scared <br />You almost seem shocked, and slowly your slide <br />Your hand up the smooth surface, palm out in the form of a high five <br />Fingers outstretched, to easily allow my fingers to loop though <br />Just like we used to do, vines entwining and growing <br />Soon to bear beautiful flowers, pink and green and black. <br /> <br />The barrier shatters and we both step forward <br />Into each others arms, you silently sobbing <br />Me smiling sadly, only expecting to feel a fake <br />To touch cold stone, to the smell of must and taint <br />But am only greeted with a warm, loving and greedy kiss.<br /><br />Troy Clark<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-i-feel-when-you-leave/
