I Would've

I would've given you all my years

Instead, you disappeared

And the years before you stole them all

Like they were just a souvenir - put away like

it’s small

You broke it down, snatched it away

Scrunched up, chewed and spat out

Everything we did, what I thought we had,

in my face

That always looked up at you

Proud

Now my little neck is sore

And my dusty blue eyes sting

Like a cavity it aches

A heart loosely held together by string

What cruelty to rewrite the book

Like it was just a chapter you can overlook

It's made it's way onto the shelf now but sometimes I pick it back up

Flick through the pages that took me ages to move past

Stuck

Now it’s like that lifetime has passed

I'm reshaped by it; unfitting of the old cast

New Chapter: Years That Look Different

But the story remains between the lines

Intertwined

Without a happy, or forever after

A lost piece of time I'll still always posses

Because

I would've given you all my years

No less