A Love Long Lost

Your laughter is a song I can't hear anymore

It's flitted away on the air

Carried off by the sea from the shore

But I don't think you care

Your eyes don't shine like they used to

One hundred years ago

When I thought I couldn't ever love you

Though you certainly loved me so

I once thought our souls didn't match

But I'm starting to think I was wrong

Feelings I thought I never could catch

Have fallen straight into my palm

Over these years you've grown colder

Each rejection erecting a wall

It only got worse as we got older

Until the question didn't come at all

I'm sorry I didn't love you then

And I wish you loved me now

Because if not now, when?

Or is the better question how?

How do we make it work?

Or are you beyond the point of loving me again?

Are our memories too full of tainted murk?

That you can't find the heart to let me in?

I'm sorry I said no

In days so long past

If I'd known what way our lives would go

I would have tried to make us last

From now till the end I will love you

But you don't need to love me back

Because I don't want something that isn't true

Though your absence threatens to leave a crack

Your soul is mine

And mine is yours

And until the stars for us align

I'll be waiting on distant shores