VELVET SHADOWS & ALMOSTS

Some stories don't end,

They dissolve, like perfume

Fading from a letter never sent.

They live, in velvet shadows

Soft, Unspoken, Resting 

between

What was felt

And what was feared.

The heart still holds your quiet grace

I miss, Your eyes, filled with love, that time and beautiful place

The crazy laughs, the soft goodbyes 

Still hang like dusk in clouded skies.

You were almost love, almost light 

Almost the calm in endless night

And I ?

A poem left unsaid

A song that stopped right where it bled.

We lived in pauses, never prose 

In half sent smiles and almost rose

A story inked in might-have-beens

On pages torn by you, I have seen.

So if I ask what we became 

A whispered thought, a fleeting name 

Yet somewhere deep, I still believe 

In autumn's hush, on some soft eve

When stars align and time forgives

We'll meet where almosts always lives

Not to rewrite, but just to know 

Why velvet shadows still softly glow.

Raman