A Purple Memory - Bao Binh
She came in purple lost in time
A memory shaped in shade and line
Eyes that wept, hands that shook
But still I dared to look
She drifted in with the fading light
Her presence soft, her guilt insight
I saw her eyes before her face
And time stood still inside that place
A woman who had let me go
Now faced the child she didn't know
No words could make the moment bright
But still she came to fight that night
She didn't ask to be forgiven
Just hoped a door could still be given
And as she cried, I saw her soul
A fragile fire, a shattered whole
A purple memory walking in rain
Carrying silent shadows and pain
But something in her smile so white
Unlocked the tears I tried to hide
I called her mother once that day
And let the pastures float away
She told me how she walked alone
How regret had carved her bone
Each day away, each night I see
Of what was lost and couldn't be
And as she spoke, I felt her fear
Of holding me, of coming near
And still my heart began to bend
To heal a wound time must mend
I didn't say I fully knew her
But somehow now I couldn't lose her
Two strangers bound by one goodbye
Still met beneath the same old sky
A purple memory, sweet but cold
Wrapped in stories never told
Again her voice, I heard my name
And something soft inside me came
She wasn't just the one who cried
She was the part I kept inside
It's not the years we miss that matter
But how the broken ties can shatter
When silence ends and hearts confess
We're both reborn in tenderness
A purple memory, strong and true
Reaching back to something new
I'll never walk away again
From where I came, from who I am
And though we live two worlds apart
She still lives bright inside my heart
She came in purple, soft and slow
And now I finally know
