What I Left Below

You heard me Now come find me I’ve been waiting

Where you left me

I followed breathing through the walls Past broken lights and flooded halls

The deeper that the pathway wound The more your voice became my

sound I found a door beneath the stone Marked with a name

that was my own Behind the glass,

beneath the tide A shape like me opened its eyes

Who are you?

You already know

Why are you here?

You left me below

You left me below

Where the light couldn’t reach

With the words you swallowed And the hurt you couldn’t speak You

left me below

So the rest of you could go

But everything you buried Stayed alive beneath the cold You left me

You left me

You left me below

The chamber shook, the water climbed You wore an older face of

mine Your hands were marked by every door I closed and never

opened anymore

You said, “I carried what you lost While you escaped without the

cost You learned to live,

but left with me The part of you that used to feel”

What do you

want?

What you took when you ran How do I free you?

Reach out your hand

I said, “I’m sorry”

You said, “That’s not enough”

I said, “I survived” You said,

“Then why are you still lost?”

The water reached my mouth The whole room started turning

You held your hand against the glass And every buried light started

burning

Break the glass Let me through If I drown So do you

Take my hand Share the weight Bring me back

Before it’s too late

I left you below

Where the light couldn’t reach With the words I swallowed

And the hurt I couldn’t speak

I left you below So the rest of me could go Now

everything I buried Is the only way back home

I left you

I found you I won’t leave you below

I reached into the darkness—

And something took my hand