Quiet & Alone

I stand here, quiet and alone.
More alive than I've felt in years.
I saw you tonight.
My heart remembering things that my mind had tried so hard to forget.
Time, unmoving in it's cruelty, stopped.
As did my breathing, thinking, being.
For a brief yet endless second,
I recalled like lightening,
every single smile and tear that I ever knew because of you.
My soul laughed out loud,
without consent from my pride,
and they quarrelled within me.
Both too stubborn in their desire to compromise.
I turned to you and tried to speak...
but with a voice that was scared of being heard,
I choked on the feelings that I had forgotten how to feel.
So I walked away.
I watched me..walk away.
And I cried,
because tomorrow's another day,
that I'll stand here...
quiet and alone.