Your eyes which once grew never tired of mine

Now seem ashamed to see. Laugh on. All is fine.

To you, what we were is but a distant star

And happiness and life has never felt so far.

The world fell apart around some talk of you and me;

Everything died as we chatted and sipped lukewarm tea.

The swirling emerald magic which once burnt bright in our souls

Has been quenched by icy bitterness and now smoulders like coals.

We danced under milky moonlight in streets which led far away

But it is but a memory- faint and grey today.

It is like a half heard remark in a tedious argument.

Oh, how we galloped as ghosts, past open shops and up the hill to the monument.

I captured dreams, stardust, for you, in a butterfly net

And placed it in your heart. Loving. Tender….like we never met.

Words. Plucked from my mind. Emotion condensed. Like a thousand single stars. Look at the stars now, dear. Gaze. And feel truly alone.

Eternity lies before us like a starry sky, my far away love.

But now it’s time to fly, fly away, like the misty white dove.