to gulliver

you step into my life
like a wave
crashing on the rocks of the shore.
suddenly painful.
and quite numbing.
but also inevitable.
the waves remain waves.
but the rocks are changed forever.
without their even knowing.

this little place of comfort
i've built for myself,
is suddenly empty.
and quite meaningless.
but there is also a revelation.

i realize.
there is indeed a world
greater than my own.
the sky is higher than i imagined.
and the possibilities can be limitless.

but alas.
like a stranger on a journey,
your passage was but for a while.
and before i even realize
just how damaging
or constructive
you've become,
you were gone.

and all i have,
as proof of your existence,
is a humongous footprint
you left on the floor
of my heart.

travel safe, great gulliver.
perhaps in time,
our paths will once again cross.
but until then,
i remain,

a lilliputian.