December Skies

I first loved you
Long ago
I left you here
Didn’t let you go
When things changed Before I left
Regret is something I didn’t expect

Years of nurtured innocence
Ruined in feeble minutes
I fought against missing you
But when I came home
I already knew

We were as dark as December skies
As dark as we were light
Feels like nothin’s left to salvage
So we sit
As smoldered ashes

Some of the time
I thought of you
Disappointed and confused
Because together we hurt her
Someone, to me, a stranger

Forgiveness was on your side
But she abandoned me of mine
I won’t try and save my
Self through ignorance
They know I haven’t
Seen you since