change.

Tonight, i looked outside

and i felt a small difference.

The Christmas lights still hung,

the snow still rested on trees,

but something had changed.

Into the clear night i looked,

past the farthest homes,

into the winter's cold abyss.

It wasn't my surroundings,

but something had changed.

The cars still rushing by,

though few and far between.

The wind blew softly through,

touching each object as it passed,

but something had changed.

The neighbours remained silent,

I could hear only a gentle hum.

I stared and thought to myself,

the minutes kept ticking away,

but something had changed.

I moved around the house,

looking from room to room.

Everything was in its place,

no lost things to find, put away,

but something had changed.

I walked past the mirror,

catching a glimpse in my eye.

Silent and broken, the reflection.

A girl who knew so much pain.

It was me that had changed,

Not the night I was part of.

Not the cars, the houses or sky.

Not my belongings or neighbours.

But something inside me

had changed.