remnants

I never knew how quickly I would go,
from the person you loved,
to a person you used to know.
So quickly, you turned,
from the love that I yearned,
to a love that I never deserved.

I walk these velvet tightropes, between
the lovers, the loved and the lonely.
Never to know where I fall, if at all,
but for you, I do,
even though I'm just words on a page,
in due time, our love will be new
once more,
because it's all that we have to live for.

Our distant endeavors may appear bleak,
from the woe that the past has shown me.
But these are the words I've been longing to speak,
to the lovers, the loved and the lonely.