Loving Foundation

I promised your love

an offering to myself

which you said was true

I feasted my soul

on that loving foundation

safe against tremors

Secure in my gift

I felt no fear in your doubt

I saw only security

And so I built on

extending towers of self

with us at their core

And as the earth shook

I refused to see downfall

tied to falling spires

Though the rocks did shake

stones fell, towers collapsed

I sat still, serene

That love, once gifted

still held, immovable

for you could not lie

Even as limbs broke

and as dust obscured sight

I swore I could see

As collapse echoed

and silence fell on my mind

I swore I could hear

As rocks scoured skin

and my nerves became numb

I swore I could feel

And only once dead

lost in the rubble of life

did I know the truth

I was forgotten

with your love you had long fled

leaving an empty heart

My foundation decayed

my tower a fool’s triumph

a folly to love

So with fading time

I found only my own self

muted and destroyed

But even by then

I took nothing back from you

for my love is yours

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