Memories Gone By

I still feel the cold from that night

Seeing the marks left on my body

I tried with all my might

Not to show it, for anyone not to see

Yet it was inevitable that someone one day

For them to reappear 

Would notice the soul that lost its way

Full of pain, full of fear

And you couldn't protect me, 

I was too far from you to hear

And you were too far to see

That you were the one bringing the biggest fear

I would have forever been in your shadow, 

Being pushing you to greatness, 

Sacrifice more you could ever know 

So long as your life was out of the mess, 

I was there, I saw your worst, your best

I witnessed your words, your heart

I sat in the middle of your literary fest

Yet while always close by eternally apart

This eats up at me, always, always, 

I'd have smiled in your shadow

So long as there was light in your days, 

I would tried all for the sake of you to know

That I would, I will be there never far behind

Always, always, where I can watch over you

If you no longer are in my life, you are in my mind

Until this life has run it's path through...

If only, just if only we both walked on the same road

Understood each other's ways better, 

If only you saw me with a view that was broad, 

You'd have noticed within me the monster, 

Maybe it would have been avoided

But this word means nothing 

It is the master of where I'm headed

And you on that path I cannot be taking....

Laurence Ramos

November, 25th. 2012