Then,

Then
I realised that you would end
and untied the strings that tethered
my heart
to
your hands.

I walked through days bound only
to an indefinite call from a future
that had been freed
from definite calamity.

And I walked singing.  

It should have been me.
But it wasn't.

Until I realised that it was wholly
as it should have been
and it was only me
crying for otherwise.