ABDUCTED

I hope and pray 
You'll never come searching
Into the dark abyss 
Of my delinquent soul 
For its cavities are littered 
With your words 
My wily, wayward shade 
Swallowed them whole! 

I stole them 
When you weren't looking 
Those enchanting strangers 
And made them my own 
Surreptitiously 
In their precious depths 
I captured 
Random fragments of you 
That you left behind 

Like raw diamonds
Unintendedly. 

Now they lie there, 
In careless tracks, sparkling 
And reflecting in snaking drifts 
Charmers in beautiful disarray 
But please don't take them back 
They're all I have 
The moments crafted painstakingly 
From distant memories 
And dreams left far away 

Oh please, will you let them stay?


MS