Balloon Anecdotes

Echo.. echo.. hear the shadows whisper,
Melodies curling backwards
Like ribbons caught in the wind's sigh.
Inhale the scent of nostalgic kaleidoscope,

A lover's hand once reached out,

When balloons were filled with the color of longing,
You were the heartbeat beneath the fabric,

And now, unspooling dreams - an explosion of petals in reverse.

What love held, now carried on the breeze,

Into the past; unstitching threads of the night.