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# You were
- URL: https://mindovermechanism.com/you-were/
- Published: 2026-05-14T14:24:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-14T21:26:22.000Z
- Author: Peter Merrens
- Tags: Poetry

You were. A breath in my ear.  
And thus I awoke.  
And once, with fear in your eyes,  
I forgave what was not yours.

You clung that night you were told.  
And I was angry.  
No, not at you, but I knew  
that he was lying.

You are the stock on which I grew.  
I hold that promise.  
Your hand, given, then taken  
away in the dawn.

I am all that I was and yet less.  
Unseeing in the light.  
Following our steps backwards.  
Towards you.