What Was

Dried up grass shimmer in the sun Like fossilized corpses with nowhere to run The barren land stretches till my eyes can see Eyes filled with visions of what is and what could be I tumble down paths strewn with skeletons of yesterday Where my life was bright like a warm Spring day When I was happy and contented with love and its mysteries Love that led to my joy's demise and resultant miseries The hot winds blow tunes into my ears Of loving words that filled my heart in my yesteryears Songs I sang and words I wrote deifying love Words that now seem meaningless, like wings on a dead dove The winds also bring forth memories of words disloyal To love, to how I felt, that resonate with betrayal Which led to, from my heart, the crumbling of your cherished statue Words that you said, which slowly pushed me away from you In this wasteland, I wander with no destination in sight Waiting for darkness to engulf me and rid me of life's light Stumbling against expectations of emotions that love has Searching for what I had, Searching for what was