Gone Away

GONE AWAY

We met by unconventional means;
two voices in the night.
Music to my deafened ears
though unknown to my sight.

When flesh to flesh we met
soon two became as one.
My hear racing like a pinball
in a game your beauty won.

In love you kept me by your side
for many humbling years.
Your laughter ringing in my heart;
your kindness in my tears.

We grilled picnics in the park,
snapped nature's beauty in pictures.
All that I was and all I ever would be
I gave to you; they were yours.

With our hair fluttering in the breeze
we chased each other through the grass
and rolled in each other's arms
when, laughing, he caught me at last.

And I thought we'd be together for forever;
by the sea and the trees and close at home.
We were happiest together than apart
like two lovers in a happy author's poem.

So what happened after so many years of us?
What happened to our little patch of bliss?
Where are your tender smiles now?
Where has gone the sweetness of our kiss?

You found another,
I saw it in your eyes;
and the storm of pain enveloped me
as I closed my eyes and cried.

Now I feel I'm dying
like my heart has stopped its' beat;
and my body has gone stone cold
losing all it's heat.

I stare in silence at the walls,
I guess I wait for love's return.
Though I know it's gone and won't come back
I sit and brood and yearn.

A love once strong
has now gone away.