the sun is shining but all i see are shadows dancing
against the face I once I thought I knew.
you still smile through a wall of who i once knew
whose doors are now forever closed to me.
Or maybe those were just the windows that were once opened
if only for a nanosecond of time - to me, it was infinity
to have once caught sight of your beauty
to have once seen you in glory
and now

to only pretend that i once knew you.

No rhyme, no prose, no time
could ever let me understand where the wall became a mountain
between what you felt and what you thought

now seeing you is just a shadow of what I once I knew.
Words are emptied into a vacuum that disappear before they begin.