You don’t want to see her, no not yet
You don’t want to remember
You don’t want to forget
For a love so perfect will only abide
When kept in a memory locked deep inside
You nourish the moments with laughter and tears
You never surrender to your doubts or fears
You cling to her vision for as long as you want it to be
For why should you spoil a perfect memory?
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‘You can close your eyes to reality
But not to memory”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Seasons come. Seasons go
Summer heat to winter snow
Spring flowers to autumn dew
But seasons will never change my love for you

Seasons change as they will
August haze to December chill
April showers to September hue
But seasons will never change my love for you

There are seasons for love
There are seasons to regret
There are seasons to remember
There are seasons to forget

The flowers may fade
The ice may melt
The leaves may turn
The heat may subdue
But seasons will never change my love for you

Seasons come. Seasons go.
Changing in order, made to be so
The seasons pass on as they always do
But seasons will never change my love for you

Now that you’ve entered your September years
And things never seem as they appear
You glance at every mirror and try not to stare
As you watch your beauty gradually begin to disappear
Your beauty may fade and your youth slowly dies
Maybe for everyone but not for these eyes

Why do my tears continue to fall?
Why does my heart never beat?
Why do my dreams come up empty?
Why will our two hearts never meet?

Why does your heart renounce me?
Why do you reject my plea?
Why won’t our two hearts forever blend?
Why doesn’t my heart ever mend?

Why do I hold on to your memory?
Why do I never let go?
Why do the years remind me?
Why do I still love you so?

Why do you reject my gifts from the heart?
Why do you never respond?
Why don’t you surrender for a kiss or two?
Why won’t you let me be the lover you rely upon?

Why does fate deny our love?
Why does destiny refuse to step in?
Why does the world spin as it’s always been?
Why does the sun continue to rise?
Why do the moon and stars continue to shine above?
Why do I fall to my knees and pray?
For everything will remain the same as it is
100 years from today.
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“Unless you love someone
Nothing else makes any sense”
E.E.Cummings
(1894-1962)

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