You needed me

You needed me

Your aching soul cried out for love

And lonely as I felt at times

There was never a possibility before

Of refusing you

There are memories I wake with now

Of those final nights

As we sat close by

And when I watched them hurting you

You took it all and never once complained

Even tried to shoo me away when I got upset

That was you

And that was me

Always perhaps ‘too sensitive’ to pain

Now you live on within my heart

As a long and tangled chain of memories

The landscape has changed so much in these last few years

And even as I miss you

Another part of me knows that the end came

When it needed to

For we are not the architects of fate

But merely the weary foot soldiers

Who walk this meandering pathway

That leads us

With time

Deeper and deeper

Into loving, understanding

And redemption.