The Time We Gave Them Everything
Has Left Us In This Place.
I’ve Blinked And Found The Same Boy
With Grey Hair And Sombre Face.
When I Stood And Wished You Happy
As I Burned With Molten Tears,
I Little Knew You’d Steal A Bit
And Keep It Safe For Years.
And When You Brought It Back Again
And Gifted Me That Shard,
I Marvelled That A Piece Of Me
Was Still Pure And Unscarred.
I’d Smiled At Fate, But She Frowned Back
And Turned Her Little Knife
And Eros Shot Black Arrows
At A Nearly Wasted Life,
But Now Although Beleaguered
And Downtrod, I Face The Test
And I’ll Stand And Wish You Happy
As I Give You All The Rest