Love's War
How long will we lie awake
Waiting for sleep to consume us so we can shift focus from this pain
Yet we stare up at the stars all teary eyed not willing to let this moment pass away.
Maybe that's why we always run back to one another
As if to say our love was a treasure that we found after the war of effort
And letting go would render useless the sacrifices of the soldiers who died to occupy the land of your heart
Soldiers like my pride I laid to rest
So I lay here at 4 hours and 34 minutes past midnight
Asking myself where do I start
Should I begin by deleting each and every moment we shared
All the way down to the first poem I wrote about you
Or our first kiss on your bed
You were like the weekend
something I looked forward to after my 9-5 we used to chill on the weekend
How could we let this end
We used to talk about our future
And the way we'd do stuff
Together
A notion of forever entwined with eternity and cast into a lifetime
Of joy and hope and love
That's what we said defined us
Things like that are what built trust
Nah bun it, things like that are what built us.
Now look at what we lost,
I know this was pure love,
This was more than just mere lust,
Hurt is what breaking up does,
But I guess we’ve done what we must.
-Geoffrey