A Little Longer

They ask me if I want to visit your place

I say yes, I miss being there

But it’s a lie I use too often.

I sit in the car all set to visit you

I am more nervous than excited

We start to drive and in no time

The car stops where it always has.

We reach there and I see you

I see you standing right where you always do

Near the stretched balcony

Wearing your brightest smile

Even when your world is collapsing.

I walk the stairs to you worrying you might go away

I run at my fastest pace to come see you

And yet when I reach there you aren’t standing there anymore

My heart breaks the same way again.

They come after me asking me why I was hurrying

And as always, I say, “Nothing, I was excited”.

They ask me if I’m okay and I tell them that I am

But they don’t know I see you

Walking across the rooms when I visit your place.

You enter the kitchen to get me water

But I already have enough running down my eyes by now

You sit beside me when they talk to me

You help me to not cry.

They ask me to make them my best tea

But I can never find the sugar and you know it

You stand right behind me, pointing where its kept.

“How come they don’t see you?”, I ask

You smile and say nothing.

“You know I am a mess without you”

And your smile fades away a little.

“They are not doing good”, I tell you

And you are almost about to shed a tear

But you don’t, because you’re not real.

“Please say something, talk to me!”

And you have started to go out of sight again

And it doesn’t take you long

To disappear in thin air

I wish you stayed a little longer

I wish you stayed forever.