Happily Never After

All at once and without warning

your presence shakes my cloudless sky

your steady stare, it summons storming

unbroken gaze, like lidless eyes

Lightning teasing, thunder roaring

I'm in shock and you're in awe

winds are howling, rain is pouring

ignored and far from each our thought

All at once and without warning

a stranger stared into my soul

Distance, silence, divine procuring

hearts made plans for hands to hold

Both humbling and condescending

contradicting what I once believed

and now I'd go to war defending

this instant love that we've conceived

Deep within, I'm reinventing

my famished heart was long deprived

but wicked irony impending

I've waited for you all my life

Our first and last moments blending

our once upon a fare thee well

for outside the world is ending

how quickly heaven can turn to hell