Something To Believe In
When you happened, I believed in magic, in faeries,
princely men and love, in good prevailing over evil.
I believed in God, in angels and salvation
but most of all, I believed in magic, in miracles…
Perhaps a prince without a horse,
no gold, no carriage, no kingdom
but I believed in love and was carried away.
I was ready to slay monsters, build castles with bare hands…
loving you felt like magic,
I believed in you and I believed in us.
A simple fare, a country kingdom, our own Tir-na-nOg,
I appreciated everything, the daily battles, the closeness of you,
spare potatoes, children giggling in their sleep…
…it was magic…
Sixteen years, I still believed in you,
still appreciated spare potatoes, children giggling in their sleep,
the close exhaustion at a battles end.
I woke one morning, cold, alone, terrified
in the mêlée of living on love I stopped believing in fairies,
good defeating evil, God and angels…magic and miracles
But I still believed in you…in us…
and you were gone.
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