payback

so, you were here all along
it was i who didn’t see you
although i heard you ripping
into my dreams with fangs
dipped in the memory of that
pristine morning when i woke
to find you had gone, turned into
a spell that morphed nightmares
into empty sound.

and that is why i stealthily
creep behind you now.
it’s payback time
and before you can look
behind, you would
have already become one
with the mountain ridges,
rivers and echoes of
now.