The time came…
when our eyes no longer smiled,    as we did at Table 26.

Nor as we laughed…
    when the rain called us to flee
    and melt into a kiss against a tree.
    
No longer did we dance…
    as one as we did at Bice.

No longer did we turn in bed…
    to give our love.

We came together with passion ablaze,
    a time ago.
But the time came…
    when our souls couldn’t feel our kiss.   

You were the poet of my heart.

But the time came
    for us to part:
      Slowly
      Silently
      Secretly

Leaving us empty:
      Unknowingly
      Untrustingly

The time came…
      for leaving.

And the sea we once knew said of us:
    "They loved one day…    
          the tide came in…                   
          the tide went out…”

I did love you
Believe