Someone Who Stays

Thinking we would

Maybe become

I gave my fullest

To the dance

Moving

Closer

Trying slowly

Failing

I somehow ran

It was nice to think

You would lift me

I knew

You were meant to

Stay

I turned around

When I saw you

Do so before me

Something

Pulled me back

Elastic

And we found a way

To dance

In step

It was good

And then

You evaporated

Leaving me

Before the best part

I could say a thousand

Lies

Instead

I chose the truth

You left

Inside me

The knowledge

Of what could be

But with someone

Who stays