Elegy for the Invisible

I SAW YOU ON YOUR DARKEST NIGHT WHEN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FELT RIGHT.

I SAW YOU ON YOUR DARKEST DAYS,

WHEN ALL YOU WANTED WAS JUST A FEW RAYS.

I SAW THE TEARS YOU SHED WHEN YOU THOUGHT TO YOURSELF,

I’D BE BETTER OFF DEAD.

I SAW YOU IN YOUR DARKEST FEARS,

THE TERROR YOU FELT THE ONLY PROOF YOU WERE STILL HERE.

I SAW YOU WHEN YOU SAID YOU WERE DONE, THE LAST VESTIGE OF YOUR HOPE GONE.

I SAW YOU WHEN IT ALL SLIPPED AWAY,

CONVINCED DEATH WAS BETTER THAN A LIFE LIVED THIS WAY.

BUT HERE YOU ARE WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU’D BE GONE.

DIDN’T SOMETHING STOP YOU AND MAKE YOU HOLD ON?

WASN’T THERE A BREATH WHEN IT GOT QUIET INSIDE,

AND FOR A MOMENT YOU THOUGHT, MAYBE I’LL BE ALRIGHT?

SEE, I WAS THERE, THE ONLY INVISIBLE ONE,

AND SAW YOUR LIGHT, BRIGHTER THAN THE MORNING SUN, AND I TOOK YOUR HAND AND SHARED SOME OF MINE.

AND TOGETHER WE BELIEVED,

YOUR LIFE WAS DIVINE.

YOU WERE NEVER INVISIBLE TO ME

please stay