Once

There was so much promise. 

Once

For a future that lay ahead. 

Once

As I lay my head on you 

As we lay 

Once 

the love burned 

with a fire that could give birth.

The flowers would have grown

The children would have known

A completeness never felt before.

Painting and wording, drinking coffee through the night.

Picnics for a lark. Playing sparklers in the dark.

Like happy gypsies singing and prancing through the forests:

But we hit a turn in the road.

You began to goad and load us 

with your

mistrust of all things good and pure.

The distance grew further

the time got shorter

the flame spluttered

and died.

I cried

You sighed

You denied the existence of love.

Anarchy rules what a bunch of fools. Can't they see or is it only me

Or is it only you

Once we were one

But now we are two

So blue so true

We fell apart without the glue

Of trust and love.

From a galaxy far far away