Reflections

Life stopped

only for a while

and I was taken back

to the past,

to the part of me I long to forget.

The words they spoke

when they didn’t know I was listening

broke my heart

because they were once mine.

The pain that poured

out of their skin,

their words,

and their lives

made it all too real again.

I sat alone

and cried…

and prayed…

and poured out my soul…

hoping they might hear something

any thing that would help.