Forgotten Footprints

Drift

Watching from far away
Leaving footprints from where I've been
Looking at you through the old windowsill
As you laughed and played with the children

How do I introduce myself again?
When it's been so long since I left
To call you out would be poison
To ignore you would be death

You seem to slightly glance at the window, at me
Surprise evident in your eyes
But it seemed to you I was a figment of your imagination
An illusion, a shadow in the alley

You resumed to tell your story
Ignoring the fading figure in the streets
What I wouldn't do to feel you again, to be with you again
Thoughts running wild as I left the city once again

I stayed buried, hidden, shameful
No way to apologize
No way to make amends
No way to find my footing

I've run thousands of miles
But I can't find the path where I started
It's buried, lost, deep and under
And I can't find my way back home,
my way back to you

I drifted once again to somewhere new
Where I can take my mind off of you
But it won't be long 'till I crawl back
Still missing even the ghost of you