Rekindle

By ALEX MINASSIANS
Alexminassians@gmail.com

I have been waiting for you
All these days,
All those months,
All the years...
Everyone kept saying to me
Let him go
He will never return.
But I knew,
I knew one day you would come back
Come back to me,
For me.

I’ve seen things while I was away.
Magnificent things,
Horrid things.
With each passing day
The emptiness inside me grew,
Slowly consuming me,
My spirit.
I am sorry to have left you.
I am sorry that it took so long for me
To understand that you are my light.
And that without you,
I cannot shine.

Not once did I cry
Not once!
Not once.

Then why do you cry now?

I was saving it,
For this moment.
Why waste tears on something sad
When I know something beautiful
Is coming my way.