“Would it have cost to trust?!”

She saw a dawn brimming with each colour
on the spectrum while he perceived
merely the extremes, black and white,
until her faith eclipsed the blinds
holding his captive, and let him discover
the wild glory of the hues of life’s light;
As their paths collided, a gift like no other
they bestowed upon each other, that of trust –
unyielding in the face of wrong and right,
until their demons came to the surface
to shatter every last piece of the anchor
they had believed would survive every fight;
All attempts to make amends were to no avail –
for what is once broken cannot be repaired
without the reminders of promises reduced to dust –
until the path they had carved together saw
them walking away with no hope in sight
of ever having the sun follow so final a night;
Years passed, or seconds perhaps, till time,
in all its fickle beauty, made their paths cross,
giving them pause as the scars of the rust
they had fed with mistrust made them flinch
as if the wounds had just been inflicted –
the anguish mocked their recovery’s might;
As they stood shocked by the vehemence of
what had been to still cripple them so, they mused:
“Would it have cost at all to trust
that you so easily chose to doubt?!
Would it have hurt to fearlessly uphold
the unspoken vow we meant to never flout?!”;
There were no questions, nor answers
for how could there be any in the wake
of the tempest they had put each through
when every shade of the horizon thus polluted
would have come to their rescue had they
not let their trust succumb to doubt’s blight!

This is inspired by art and life alike! Trust is the most important gift one can bestow upon another, and where there is a tree of trust, how can doubt plant its seeds?! Yet, sometimes we let the former surrender to the latter, causing us guilt and regret. And when that happens, how can we ever learn to trust again?! How can we ever forgive ourselves for failing to keep someone’s trust safe and/or someone else for breaching our trust?! I believe it is only when we appreciate and respect how sacrosanct trust is that we can strive to never let it lose, no matter what the cost.