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 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 thee 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 that...

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5-14-2023