The ties that bind

With a smile I walked away
From your melancholy
Your morose demeanor finally got the best of me
The yellowing papers of our “Love letters” Blew away in the wind.
I have all but given up.

The last candle that burned,
The last flame of “Love” that licked my face
Left me with what should have been a broken heart
As I watched the wick shrivel up into a blackened string
I just can’t care anymore

The sting of everything that I remember has disappeared
There is nothing left of you in me
I have broken all the ties that bind me,
And ripped away all those chains that you burdened me with
I can finally fly again.

My wings have spread again, it actually hurts to flex them
You kept me grounded for so long, that I had almost forgotten freedom
Again I can feel the serenity of the afternoon breeze
And taste from all the milks that nature has to offer,
I am free again.

And as the wind caressed me, the layers of all my wasted years
And My wasted time, peeled away from me into the night.
Time is a graceful muse, she knows no bounds
And she can only heal,
I am well again

The sun receded behind the evergreen trees,
Leaving nothing but the orange glow of dusk.
The gorgeous afterbirth of my second life
The one that you have given me, because of you
I am alive again