An Answer

it was you – did you know that?
it was you who taught this long dead heart
how to open its wings and fly again…

i thought that life had no meaning
you walked through that door when
and pulled me back from madness’ brink

you showed me how to live again –
how to open up my soul –
how to work through my pain

with your wit and your style,
you healed the acidic hole
eaten through to my very core

with your cool intellect, charm,
and sly, off-hand witticisms,
you showed me how to laugh again

you burrowed your way into my mind
with your unguarded truths…
with those insightful observations

it was you, you know – you who came
into my life on that dark, lonely night…
you who held my hand and brought me through

and now – now that you’ve walked
through that door and healed my soul –
i pray to whatever deity is in the sky…

that you never leave.