So much unknown in the once known

Two people who were intertwined and tangled with each other a fortnight ago- now distant.

Parallel lines.

The eyes that felt like peace once? Now they don’t even look at each other to steal a glance.

The voice that called your name like worship? Now can’t formulate a simple “Hi” when they see you.

How ironical it is right? All you ever wanted for “us” was goodbye but you cannot bring yourself to form the word to say to me when I leave the once known?

All I wanted, on the contrary, was to keep you. Hold you close. Hoped that you would forever be in my orbit as the planet that gravitates only to my pull.

Then how is it that I form the word “bye” when I leave the once known?

The place that once was all about love and light and laughter and all things good- is now ice cold and dark. Maybe just for me though.

The one place I ran to every chance I got because it sparkled like love? The lights now out. Now my footsteps stop at the entrance. Contemplates. Traces the path back to the exit. And the love dwindles.

You are unknown to me now. Or maybe you’re just dressed in colours not meant for me.

Your voice- a faint echo of someone I loved deeply and completely. I love you still. But my love’s all fading into black. I’m fading into the black in your reality.

The end of our story is near. The end of our story is here. So to my once known before you’re forever unknown to me- light up the dark before it consumes you.

Learn to love before love learns to leave you.

Keep my space safe for if ever the wounded soldier returns home after fighting her war.

Keep my memories locked somewhere so that I always have a blip of known in the now unknown.