It’s Been a Long Time

Your shadow lingered in my quiet hours,
A silence folded into countless dreams.
Each night I traced your name in falling stars,
And woke to find the sky had torn its seams.

How many days have withered into dust,
How many nights were heavy, cold, and blind?
I carried all my hope because I must,
And still your memory bloomed inside my mind.

Now kiss me once, as though the world is new,
And twice, as if the clock has learned to bend.
Let every breath remind me it is true—
That distance breaks, and hearts can heal, and mend.

For time is long, yet sweeter still it seems,
When absence ends, and love returns through dreams.

by Onnaya