Maybe one day
in the far off future
I'll see you in the street
and you'll tell me about
your new life, your new family
and i'll smile and say
'I'm glad it all worked out'
but it will be a facade
to mask the bitter pain
of knowing that despite everything
you moved on,
you loved again
whilst I, well...
I look for you in everyone.

The sun is setting like
An ethereal scarlet orb behind
The naked tree, whose light
Shines behind spindly branches  
In rays that I mistook for
God's fingers when I was young,
Before my innocence had wilted like
Those red leaves that litter the ground
This time of year and release
That earthy smell that we mistake for
Autumn but is actually
Decay.

Something about you intrigued me.
          Maybe it was your humour,
                       Maybe it was your love for all the same things as I,
                                    Maybe it was your smile.

Whatever it was gave me the courage to befriend you.
             We spoke about nothing,
That nothing became something,
                        And quickly I found you as my everything.

You put down your defences for me
                                         So, darling why did you call them back?

Slowly, then all too suddenly,
                                                   Just as I came to love you,

I find that we are
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(s.w.)