In The Mist Between A Tree

The Boy

Your internal lions were not known to me

I was unaware of your thoughts

To me, you were like another stranger in a crowd

I didn't think much of you,

At least until your mind went kaplow

And now I will never see you again

You're a thousand light years away

And I can't even hear you

Just as Romeo believed he lost Juliet

You will never know the truth to what happened

Your memory screams at me daily

And I blame myself for what happened

Another piece of ash in the flame of the roaring fire

It's something I can't change because it's in the past

But given the chance

I would change every word

Along with every letter

That I had ever said to you

I regret it all

But it's too late to say sorry now

That would never be enough anyway

Especially considering what happened to you.