I was the one
your perfect match
perfect mind
perfect frailties
these are the words you spoke
in an imperfect world
your world
a world of noise
I could never understand
as those shadows cast onto us
while we listened to rain
drum above
our bodies in bed

you looked at me
after those first few days
said it would never be the same
and cursed us from the start
as you flew away
you took our hopes
and buried them in clouds
you and me

and later
as the premonition grew
you let me talk
till I did too much
silence overwhelmed
our internal thoughts
and you spoke again
of my perfect being
I like a drug
to cast aside
the sound that haunted
as the days passed to night

then in our room
with fears withdrawn
from our meeting of skin
I spoke to you
of my wish to grow old
and with tears then bound
you shuffled the weight
of your slender arm
circled my navel
and told me again
that I was yours

yet now you are gone
having held me enough
you've taken the dream
made it your own
and happy am I
to have been your guide

still I ask you once last
of the perfection you seek
of the emotion you feared
that led you away
from me
I am that man
that being you shunned
and as you escape this realm
lost in utopia
will you hear me say
that your perfect vision
of a perfect me
remains ever-changing
as the light shifts at dawn
and you will never know
who it was that I am
being