I hope and pray

You'll never come searching

Into the dark abyss

Of my delinquent soul

For its cavities are littered

With your words

My wily, wayward shade

Swallowed them whole!

I stole them

When you weren't looking

Those enchanting strangers

And made them my own

Surreptitiously

In their precious depths

I captured

Random fragments of you

That you left behind

Like raw diamonds

Unintendedly.

Now they lie there,

In careless tracks, sparkling

And reflecting in snaking drifts

Charmers in beautiful disarray

But please don't take them back

They're all I have

The moments crafted painstakingly

From distant memories

And dreams left far away

Oh please, will you let them stay?

© Manic Sylph 2016