Brood

It was at that moment 

that the chasm opened up beneath me  

You were already lost in it

I knew it and I didn’t know it   

Darkness had already closed in 

and the air had already become cold  

I began immediately 

to fight the knowledge of this  

You had chosen your path 

and were already so far down it 

I could barely see you 

and only faintly hear you  

How could this have happened on my watch?  

Where were all the warning signs?  

If I had seen them could I have staved off this terror 

or was this your and thus my inevitability? 

I want to believe 

I could have saved you or me 

But this was our path 

and we must make peace with it  

I’m glad

I found you again 

I never stopped loving you  

I never will