Have You Forgotten Me
It's been years since we walked away from each other.
Long ago, I stopped looking back because I was afraid
that I'll not see your footprints following behind me.
Each time I dared turn my head; they'd faded a bit more.
With every hesitant step I've taken, I've wondered...
have I become nothing more than a pale phantom to you.
A memory, a ghost, who disappeared from view.
Do you no longer remember me; my name did you forget?
Or have you missed me and feel grievous sorrow and regret?
Maybe by now I'm just a delusion carried along on the wind.
Traces of you will always cling to me, a scent undenied and
in tears I cried, like raindrops falling from brooding clouds.
If afternoon showers could cleanse me of loving you,
I'd call out to the thunder god for a rage-filled storm.
My heart has never forgiven me for walking away from you.
I feel it beat more quickly on those dark and dreary days
when I think I hear your footfalls catching up to me.
I dare not turn around for fear of what I would not see.
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