Dark and soft

A Poem by StephL

a rough draft of something I wrote a long time ago.

Dark and soft as a summer night
reading alone by candle light
words blurred upon the page
the unrelenting gaze
the unforgotten memories
the disease that gets fed
from the beast within
filling my mind with doubt
questioning all i know
nothing taken for granted
nothing for show
nothing left but winters bitter snow
memorys of a time
when all we had to worry about
was the passing of the day
the only fall we could ever imagine
was the fall from the tree
never dreamt of a day
when sorrow would over come the physical pain
when memories would hurt more then scars
how do you tell when your healed from something you cant see?
there's no escaping a memory
there's no quick fix, no band aid
all there is is the fact that you did nothing to stop it
and the fact you got to live with the memory
until you become someone else's memory.
and fade away into time