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.