Not one thing!

Not a bottle, nor a song
nor a conversation
could 'ere last too long
Not a heartbeat, nor a rhyme
Never a marriage
not this time
Nothing lasts forever my friend!
Not even the pages we scribe!
Neither oil nor acrylic
even water based leaks
under the test of time
No ink will outlast us
No pencil could describe
either of our loneliness
completely erased by the tide
Nothing lasts forever
The sunset taught me that!
The sunrise fools us into thinking
that the sun will stay where it sat
It's why we keep on going
knowing, nothing will ever last
We die each night only to wake
pretending we forgot the past

I shake time's hands
for having met you.
Then, spit in their face
for taking you away.  
Sometimes a good pair
of headphones stays around
longer than a friend.

Turn to thy neighbor,
can you tell the crows from the birds trying to take flight apart?
The crows are ravenous
cannibals that pick at flesh.
The carcass that remains is the good
that cannot be erased by ill intentions.

When I was in a broken mindstate,
the person I needed the most was absent.
Now that I am rich,
I don't need anybody.

If ready, have nothing to lose,
and everything to gain
then let’s turn this part-time fling
in which we have invested
time, sleepless nights, bottles
after bottles of wine
into a full-time thing.
Please do not let this be in vain,
for I dove into your love
headfirst and at full throttle.

Lay down on the floor
and wondered, is this as low as
I can go. Then, I
took a hit or two cause
it cannot get any worse.