To Capture the Essence of First Love Lost

Before we met I was an infant teething You raised me to explore destitute feelings The joy and the tears, these were my best years I thank you for the chance to express all my fears For showing me the ropes of love and living For being my compass on the road towards giving For taking in stride the hardships of growth For happy times helping us both to cope For hope and assurance you’ll always be there For knowledge and security, you’ll always care But hanging in the balance was our incompliance And hanging in the air was an unspoken silence We settled for each other much too early And closed the door on possibility The fear got the better, the loneliness old We both deserve better as the future unfolds The rose of passion has withered and died Embedded compassion earned the right to cry The time has come, as we knew it would Consensus of soul mates, ‘though misunderstood It’s hard and I’m saddened that we grew apart I’ll release you, but never the roots in my heart Petals in love streams of life still flow And seedlings may sprout for all we know