Two pairs of tearful eyes part at dusk
Bodies pushed apart by a hurt to brusque
Can’t the cruel gods let our love get through?
Or must we pray at this forested pew?
Why let what we were die a painless death,
When choking it could take its last breath?

Unlike a light bulb that goes out slow
Ours leaves behind no defiant glow.
And as the moon sinks into the sea
We are bound by time’s eternal decree
That separates lovers from aging desire
And leaves them empty at its haunted pyre.

We fought our cannibalistic insecurities
But became their unwilling allies with frightful ease
They entered as parasites into my head
Upon my horrors they were well fed
And now they angrily push us apart
And feast on what’s left of our once beating heart.

I’ll weep for the day that I forget for forever
Those innocent, youthful memories, we had together.