When The Good Started To Fade

I remember when

the good started to fade,

when your smiles became

less and less every day,

and the space

in between our words

grew so large

silence became

the only way

we communicated.

I still remember the yearning

in my heart 

to reconnect with you

while you were 

still around

and how 

for me

that eventually 

turned into 

deep internal tears.

We lived within a mold

we let grow

that stretched 

around the edges

of our connection

and let the natural decay

of our dying relationship

consume us

more each day.

We let the corrosive effects 

of resentment

kill the time we had left.

I took for granted the moments

we still had together.

Thinking naively that forever

was an option.

If I saw you today

I wouldn't even know what to say,

We became strangers so easily

that I wish too

our history would be

forgotten,

It's not that
I want to be with you anymore,

It's the lingering memory for me,

The remembering of

when the good started to fade,

And we did nothing

to save it.

-Armando Torres