A-Okay

I sat there and faced her,
Maybe I could have told her it would all be A-Okay -
that she was worth it
Deep down, I knew she doubted it, no matter how brightly her almond shaped ebony eyes shone

maybe I should have grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her to her core-
that the comfort she’s searching for within her soul, she would find…
Once alone with the mountains and hills, and no one about

Maybe I could have told her she would feel the most amazing bliss, yet that it would fade and vanish without a sight-
that harder times were to come…

Maybe I would never have the heart for that.

I can’t reach her now,

her memories are in me- but she’s not here
Not her whole being, not her thoughts, not her then sense of being,
lost somewhere far away, so close yet I’ll never be able to reach - that pains me so,

Maybe tell her that she didn’t do all the things she promised she could,
that time slipped through her fingers,
she didn’t clasp them shut and live like she swore she would

Remind her that the living man adapts to everything and every change- and it’s not always for the best

Maybe I could tell her it all, but that’s never going to happen,
facing her, I smile silently
she smiled back,

Maybe I could have told her it would all have been A-Okay,
as I got up and walked away, glancing back over my shoulder
at the big rusty old mirror,
I realise, deep down,
she had known it all along