Stale Bonds
By Sara Miller, 18-07-01
 

Lying on her floor,
Stale laughter filling the empty room,
Edging closer to that toybox in the cupboard,
Slipping nearer to my tomb.

Once we were friends,
So close, a bond so electrostatic,
We shared words and thoughts, smiles a'thriving,
But after so much time, her's grew automatic.

Thrown in a corner,
Inept with ages and that bond worn away,
Can I really be thrown out so easily,
Carelessly, when I want so desperately to stay?

I'm extinct in her heart –
It's moved on to the latest craze,
Forgotten, my once coexistent pump lies changed,
It's loveable memories thrown into the blaze.

So this is friendship,
Once so pure and sweet, now fake and remote,
Proves that nothing lives forever,
Except pain with no antidote.

A diary's charms and a distant's arms
Are all I live for, both hidden behind lock and key;
Hoping one day I'll not need to read back to those days,
Seeking a fresh bond to capture me.

Detached, but not lost,
In the steps of the Moon's heated history,
Maybe the laws will halt for the rock to reverse,
For the lights to be turned back on, to undo the sorry.

Maybe time will conquer,
And I'll orbit until time to be released,
If this is sought, all I ask is it be clean and swift,
Back searching for a pure soul-bond, and a time when this agony has ceased.