Loving is easy living it is hard
Keeping it together only goes so far
When the romance has ended and the heartache begins
Everybody loses. Nobody wins.

Love walks in love walks out
Holding on to love is what life’s all about
But life isn’t easy It’s never been
Everybody loses. Nobody wins.

You live by the rules
You play the game
But life changes
Nothing stays the same
So who decides? So who determines?
Everybody lose. Nobody wins.

Life is complicated not always fair
When it interrupts a beautiful love affair
It’s never easy as the ending begins
Everybody loses. Nobody wins
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Love and life are about losing and winning
But for some the ending is just the beginning

They say that love may last though
Years may go, but nobody ever told me so
For the thoughts of you that still cloud my head
Have made me realize instead that the love
We shared in our youth has never faded
Like others have said

The passing years are like yesterday’s tomorrow
Having left us with time only we can borrow
A borrow we need not ever return
A borrow with no time concern
A borrow taken from our youth there to
Recall the love that never faded away after all

The past never seems far away when it
Encloses many yesterdays
Only one yesterday is all it takes for
Love to live for love to remake
Yesterday’s love then becomes yesterday’s tomorrow
Where lovers can cling to
The time they can borrow
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“There is no distance on the earth
as far away as yesterday”
Robert Nathan

It’s long enough
How long can one wait
For a reply or an answer
That may be too late?

How long must one’s heart be tried
To quench that hurt down deep inside?
How long can one last bringing up
Those memories buried deep in the past?

It’s not easy to let go
It’s not easy to say no
It’s not easy to remember to forget
It’s not easy, yet difficult to tell yourself no

It’s difficult to hold on when all hope
Seems to be gone when wishes and
Dreams are all you relied upon
It’s hard to hold on when one
Doesn’t respond elevating the fear
That one doesn’t care

If the answer is no then please tell me so
If the answer is yes then don’t make me guess
I’ve carried this burden too long in my heart
My heart on my sleeve I long to retrieve

It may be too late, for love won’t wait
I pray that my heart returns to me whole
With or without you, my needs to console
I pray I’ll go on never sighing why
Leaving a postscript of my final good-bye

The pieces of my life like the pieces of a puzzle fitted together
One piece, two pieces, three interlocking to create my reality
Each piece precisely fitted without resistance
Exposing a picture of my existence
Each piece predetermined?
Each piece happenstance?
Each piece coincidental?
Each piece provindential?

But what do you do when you realize that one piece of your life is missing?
The piece that fills the empty space the one between love and happiness
The one you misplaced
What do you do when you lose the very piece
That makes your very being the reason for being?
The piece you found one day and then you let it
Slip away
What do you do with that void the missing piece
That leaves your life without worth, meaning, or purpose?
You pray that somewhere in time it will resurface

In the meantime you persist in your search and dreams
Knowing that your life is not what it seems
A life on hold a life that would cease
As long as you’re living without that missing piece.
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“Life is very lonely”
T.S. Elliot

I don’t want that darkness that hangs over me like a cloud
I don’t want that darkness that hangs over me like a shroud
The darkness that once was my closest friend
We met when our love affair came to an end

Hours forever we would spend up in my room
Steeped in our gloom
A game we shared, my partner in solitaire
Filled with despair we would sit in our chair deep in shade
A game of loneliness we forever played

We shared our hopeless moments together
We shared the sadness that bordered on madness
We shared our haunted memories
We shared our taunted reveries

It’s not easy to let go of someone you shared
Your darkest moments so
But when you start to dimly see that life is more
Then you thought it would be

You open your eyes and visualize that
Love was a lot more then you realized
You thank the darkness for being there
When no one else seemed to care

A solitary red rose is what I chose
Not a pink, not a yellow, not a white
There is only one thing I wish to propose
That you lay it on your pillow tonight♥
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Tonight, a red rose has fallen to the ground

I don’t need any castles in the sky
I don’t need blue birds over a mountain
I don’t need any stars up in the blue
All I ever needed was you

I don’t need any colors of a rainbow
I don’t need a torch to light my heart
I don’t need a mansion with a view
All I ever needed was you

I could go on forever dreaming
But dreams will never satisfy
I don’t need my dreams to remind me
That I need you by my side

I don’t need the world to tell me
That romance and love are required too
I don’t need my heart to remember
That all I ever needed was just you♥

Let me take you back to where we belong
Back to a place back to the beginning
Come with me to where it all started
Back to the place where the two of us parted

We need to change what Fate has declared
We need to change this destiny we shared
We need to convince the gods up above
That this Fate or destiny can transform our love

We need to persuade each of those in charge
That you are my Venus and I am your Mars
We need to plead to the gods above us
The ones that will the ones that love us
For a second chance to fulfill our romance

If you are willing then take hold of my arm
We’ll renew our destiny to where it may lead
A second destiny a second Fate
It’s there if we want for us it waits
We have to believe that what we have is predetermined
An inevitable love if we want it to be
Just you and I together is all that we need
Just you and I together and we can make it succeed

Now that we have found each other again
And our thoughts reflect on remembering when
Let’s cherish the good times and forget the bad
And remind ourselves about the good memories we had
If we ever want this romance to last
Let’s take a shower and wash away the past

If there are things in the past we used to regret
Or memories and moments we wish to forget
If this romance is ever to survive
And our love is to ever be kept alive
We need to be honest and hold on fast
So let’s take a shower and wash away the past

Let’s tell each other the things we regret
Let’s talk it out while we get ourselves wet
Let’s remind each other of our mistakes
Let’s continue to shower for as long as it takes
For when we found each other again the spell was cast
So let’s take that shower and wash away the past

Before we step out let us remind there are
things in the past we need not rewind
We’ll both step out together knowing for sure
That this romance will forever endure
We’ll promise each other with a solemn vow
That our lives together begin then and now
So if you ever want this romance to last
Let’s take a shower and wash away the past

Sometimes it’s hard to retrieve
The heart that’s found its way down to my sleeve
Showing itself I never know where
I hold out my hand and I find my heart there

A heart filled with sorrow
A heart filled with grief
A heart filled with pain
A heart left for another tomorrow

This heart of mine
This foolish heart
This heart that aches
This heart that breaks

It returns to me void
To start over again
I never know where
I never know when

Until that day when my heart stands still
And its silence is broken by its beats
It will continue its journey on down as it will
For as long as it takes before it finally breaks