"Always and Suddenly"

Curious and strange...

How the mind remembers...

Certain moments from days...

All add together into memory

Faded are some...

While others call out to us in aching clarity

Yet, we seem to forget...

Unaware of what we have held onto

When our eyes begin to cast shadows upon everything

It gives allowance to some things to hollow out our heart

Creating a darkness bred...

The negativity takes root within

Too many things begin to grow unattended

And so many others become buried in the same way

Days...

Weeks...

And years go by

We think there is time...

To say all the words that are being held upon our tongue

Or to hold the hands of another, setting things right

But life reminds us always...

That it happens every day and suddenly

The thread weaved keeping us together can be pulled apart

Its the realization found within the heaviness

How do you count the amount given?

In love or hate...

What was hidden and what was shown...

All determines if our heart becomes a garden blooming with light

Or a graveyard abandoned...

We are what remains after...

Because like regret, there is two stages of grief

Who you were before...

And who you are after.

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