drum

i imagined you one day when i was twelve, standing alone in a golden field at dawn.
sparkling blue and your hair undone, stuck straight in between twos like the twelve years to come. unshackled soul and brow beholden to none, two pieces broken, then somehow became one. twinkling in the sun and lit high in the night, shy, yet polished, still beautiful a sight.
a mermaid swimming in the sky above, the andromeda in my eye flashing a whisper of love.
darling child, you'd say, go to sleep without sorrow, i'm with you now and forever, our time is not borrowed.
today and for always look up and find me smiling, i'll never leave you, in the stars i'll be shining. i'll be right here in your arms waiting on twelve years to come. till then remember me now, and live to have fun.

how could i have known at twelve years old that my life had completely turned upside down?