When We Were Strangers

   When We

Were Strangers

 

 

Looking through galleries now

 

Memories like sand

 

resurface in the tides, how

 

when you took my hand,

 

my pain was left on the alter,

 

I found a way to stand:

 

With steps that no longer falter,

 

 

 

What could whisper strife

 

So softly as the collision of our lives?

 

 

 

When we were strangers

 

could I look the other way?

 

From your sink or swim beauty

 

Turn my head, place my bet,

 

on the side of safety,

 

Forever we would be

 

only strangers,

 

The white glares of danger,

 

left behind as my footsteps

 

lead me the opposite way,

 

 

 

But I found you instead,

 

I can’t regret

 

your thorns now inside

 

my heart: turned violent red,

 

I can’t forget

 

the days we’ve crashed

 

together or carrying you

 

up the mountainside,