Am I the Forgotten One?

By Calis Cheah

(sigrd@hotmail.com)

 

You said you had to leave,

Journey across the realms

To prove your strength.

 

You needed to see

The prowess of the warriors

Of foreign kings.

 

It was to be your quest

To become strong

For all you swore to defend.

 

Did you foresee wars?

Fragile peace to shatter

Into shards like brittle glass.

 

But it was my heart that broke,

Scattered pieces in the wind.

It was me who got left behind.

 

You said I could do without you.

I was brave enough

But you were wrong.

 

You were the reason that I exist,

The air that I breathe

Yet you became my grief.

 

They told me you were dead

Somewhere in a distant land

But I did not believe.

 

I would search the very earth

Cross every continent

For the slightest trace of you.

 

Three long years had passed

I still traveled on.

I cannot rest until I know.

 

Then you came back

I reached heaven

Only to plunged into deepest hell.

 

You looked at me

With a stranger's eyes

Asking who am I.

 

Memories slipped away

Like sand through your hands

Tiny fragments lost into the night.

 

You were my all,

Forgotten by you

I never existed.