without you all my pages would be abandoned
in barren desolation
and all my days would run into nights
and nights into desperation
and mornings would come and go without notice
except for the taste of ash in my mouth
staining everything your love didn't touch
as my world would lie in ruin
and I drift into the remainder of my life
knowing that I had once loved
when I was more than a shell of a man

that one day
someday near
or someday far
that we'll meet again
start over, forgive, love
maybe end up together
and maybe this time
it won't be temporary.

And the frost descends
Like dust,
Kissed by the freezing rain,
In glittering ecstasy

a sad pair of human beings
connected under the same sky
but never to each other