Time moves on forward fast,
Like rapids hurtling unheedingly headlong
Towards a sheer deep cascade,
And plummet down below in a mighty roar
To flow relentlessly towards the infinite sea
Drifting straight into eternal oblivion.
Yet time can ne'er erase all memories,
And special ones will always linger
In the obscure corridors of my mind.
Hence I can never forget my dear,
The night that we first met.
Were not that night the stars conspiring
To throw a luminous light on our love?
Did not the twinkling stars shoot out their ways
In the clear expanse of nightly sky?
There under a lonely carob tree,
Where dry old leaves crackled
Under our woollen spreads,
You smiled graciously at me
And suddenly I knew
How eager was I for a love so true.
We were like two of those gems above,
Shooting their way across the skies.
And fate decreed that those two stars should meet
In an astral collision and fuse into a lasting blast.
Light sparkled above sublimely
An ethereal fireworks display,
That lasted for one long memorable moment,
But the light in our love will last
Until the end of our days.
Things that are promised
Are never for sure
Days out there, in the world
We don’t get past the door
I swear, I promise, doesn’t mean a thing
These old, faded sayings have a sour ring
For there is no trust in the words of man
Quick spurts and fake steam, water in a pan
A magic trick, pure and simple, to distract the eye
An everyday person is sure to comply
But me, I have learned, I know better now
To resist believing, temptation, I wish I knew how
For I place trust, in the word of a liar
I always get burned, when I play with this fire
I must learn to doubt, to question and such
But I never believed, ones I once loved could hurt me this much
Now I’m through trusting, unheedingly so
I’ve found the key, the secrets, others don’t know
I never quite knew, just who to believe
So I trusted them all, and now no one, I seethe
It only took one, to pit me against all of mankind
That space in the middle is something I must find.
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