In A Dream

By: Natasha Karenina Wijaya

I saw you last night

Do you remember?

You told me that I’ve become everything 

you wanted me to be and more

and that you were prouder of me

than you have ever been before

And do you remember what you said?

About how my temper reminds you of you 

and how you told me not to yell because to you,

I could be better

Do you remember how you made me cry?

When you told me not to grieve

because you couldn’t bear to leave 

if you didn’t know if I was going to be alright

And do you remember how I begged you to stay?

Even though I knew I was dreaming 

though a part of me kept hoping that I could stay

with you past morning

But you can’t remember when I woke up

Realizing that you were never there

and all the words that you said 

were nothing but fragments of my own ambitions

And you can’t remember how it felt

To lose you all over again

knowing that all the things I wanted you to say

would never come to be as now 

all that’s left of you and me    is 

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me