echo

we could have gone back
to the safety of the known
but we chose not to,
we should have cut adrift
our losses and our misery
but we could not,
instead we learned
how to live with them.
we could have walked away,
covered ourselves
in a veil of apathy,
but we listened to that heart
we could have given up,
say to ourselves-
'we have lost the plot'
but we smiled,
we held on strong
through the thick and thin
we took it all in our stride,
we walked on.
and when today i stand before
you once more,
with uncertainty in my head,
i find to my great solace
that you have endured.
those eyes in the mirror,
tell me only one thing,
'the lights of tomorrow
shall make the shadows
you see today,obscure.'