Touch of Colour

On a wintry evening from far away,
I wait for the words to come.
When the screen lit up and my heart did too,
A little joy that made me jump.
Gentle enough the query so,
And yet it was loud and clear,
What's it that makes friends fall out?
Out of the blue the sound of it, I did hear!
Memories, they came flooding without
From years of being within,
And with them the answer loud,
That I don't have to dally in.
But a moment, a poignant pause,
Before it breaks from my lips,
A little concern, a solicitude,
Would it rub wrong on beliefs?
"You won't be able to take it," say I,
Suddenly standing at the edge,
Will the pain return? will I be spurned?
Should I just leap off the ledge?
"I can take anything" came the reply,
A quiet and assertive tone;
Like nothing mattered but I need to know,
Don't take it off me so!
"I loved you and I still do" a blurt
And I am off that cliff,
Time stood still, I was hanging on air,
Life seemed a moment but brief!
"I loved you too", did I hear that right?
Or was it just me and my tears?
Could it be so that I missed it all,
Over and all of these years?
As if the world had never moved,
As if it is always been so,
In the time when the little ones loved,
stole glances with hearts aglow!