The Past You

I miss you The you who cared The you who was kind to us I miss the past Where childhood was such a thing that I could be blissful In ignorance Oblivious to the harm of the world crashing around me So slowly And as we grew you separated yourself from us Devoting yourself To people who didn’t care and stepped on you Transforming yourself You came out of it paranoid, afraid to get stepped on again Smothered out The kindness that I was so used to seeing, the trust that I had loved You left Replaced by someone who did not know what the person before had left You died I cried when I realized you didn’t mean to leave so suddenly Those people do not deserve you The ones who tore at your soul and devoured your kindness The ones who made you forget that you could be trusted Those people still try to hold you closer than you hold us now.