Once a muse...

 
Because you changed me.

Gently,
  sometimes violently
Imperceptably,
  yet undeniably

Finger-picking the strings of my heart
Splashing colour across my canvas
Lodging phrases in subtext of my mind

and I am
  forever
    different.

Over time and distance
you inhabit chambers of my heart
where doors never fully close,
because now I see with your eyes
and hear with your ears,

and in the sharing
beauty is closer to complete
and I am closer to whole

and you --

Once a muse,

always....