My Heart Is Safe

I heard the line ring once, then fade,

a ghost in the static,

a cruel game he played.

Many months have gone

and still somehow,

his unrealized potential wanders through silence now.

I blocked the words,

but not the dreams,

they hum beneath my nightly schemes.

I breathe, I sway, I let it be —

the music brings me back to me.

My heart is safe,

my spirit free,

no longer chasing who he would never be.

The falling leaves drift by my window —

and I let them fall for me.

He spoke through a pocket dial,

then hid behind that dishonest smile.

I felt him move across the room,

but silence was our truest tune.

Love’s not gone, it’s just transformed,

from longing’s ache to something warm.

I’ve learned the song beneath the pain —

release, forgive, begin again.

My heart is safe, my spirit free,

no longer bound by memory.

The autumn wind sings soft and low —

and now I’m whole,

enough to let you go.