What Felt Like Ours

Wandering through this world

we found what felt like ours

Now I watch it fade

and return

only to fade again

My heart asks, wasn’t it us?

who said

who felt

who were

I hold it like handfuls of sand

trying to keep what won’t stay

Time takes it

grain by grain

Don’t tell me about cycles and flow

Tell me why I have to watch it go

and still know my heart knows yours

Even now, something in you shifts

when I say your name

You don’t reach out

but I see it there

a hesitation

I could tell you a story of when we were young

And you wouldn’t know it, like it was never yours

But

we said

we felt

we were

So I will hold it

a little longer

for both of us