faded

today
I drove past the places 

where we used to dream

of being
 always a part of one another

those places where sun shone

even when our hearts 

were darkened and dusky

I saw those cracks

we used to slip into

where time slid like rain down glass

like you...into me

and places where our naivete

 still haunts with lovesick demons

and the shadowy yearnings

of things left undone

I touched 

wood and stone and glass that

still holds our salty tears

from a thousand years ago

and the milk from ancient wounds

 not fully sapped

I stood under trees
now wiser
with the same watchful branches
 still keeping our secrets

and ached with the stabbing throbs
of resurfaced memories
long ago buried

sometimes there's beauty in decay

sometimes

there's just decay