YOU WALKED AWAY

You said you'd stand beside me — always, come what may,
But when the storm rolled closer, you slowly slipped away.
Your promise rang like thunder, but died without a sound,
And I was left in silence, with no one else around.

I reached for you in darkness, but found an empty space,
A ghost of warmth and laughter, no comfort to embrace.
The walls I thought were solid crumbled into sand,
When I was drowning deepest, you never took my hand.

You left when my heart trembled, when I had lost my fight,
When every breath was heavy, and day had swallowed night.
I waited for your shadow to fall across my pain,
But only cold reminders came falling down like rain.

And yet — from that abandonment, a strange new fire was born,
I learned that love that vanishes still sharpens us when torn.
I stitched my wounds in silence, and whispered to the sky:
Sometimes the ones who leave us teach us how to fly.

So though you walked away then, when I was needing you,
I found my strength in absence, in facing what was true.
You left me in my breaking — but here’s what I became:
A soul that stands unshaken, and no longer calls your name.