Someone That I used To Know

To say 
That you
Were an insignificant 
Episode 
In my life
Would be 
Just ignoring 
facts

Yet as the leaves
Fall at the
Dawn of autumn
In anticipation 
To the cold
Hand of
Winter
Time
Tells
Me that
Now
You are
Just someone 
I used to know

Jubilant Youth
Allowed us
To explore
Our emotions 
And experience 
A Waltz 
To adults’
New found
Freedom
However
Reality
Settled
In and
Our 
Pathways
Took
A Fork
In the
Road
Leaving 
You
To be
Someone
I  just used to
Know 

Years of Torment
Like a Prisoner of War
Chained in Captivity
with the cell floor's
mold
perched upon
my lips
my self realization
led me to the understanding
that you were becoming
Just Someone I used
to know

Decades
Have now
come
And gone
Dreams 
Have become
Less intrusive 
And though 
The scars
You inflicted
Upon
Me are still
Present,
I can now 
reflect
Back
With less
Sorrow 
Or regret
And simply
Say
You were
Just someone 
That used I 
To
Know.........