I Thought You Were Forever

Everything dies.
The tiny flowers in the ground,
The butterfly dancing in the wind,
The man across the corner with the wrinkled eyes
And paper heart,
You and me
We all disappear one day
Go up in a bunch of smoke and flame
But I thought
(So tightly clung to the delicate lie)
That our
L O V E
Would last forever,
Clinging to the corners of our universe
And embedded in the sparkling concrete
Of the streets we used to walk
As the summer sun bled out across the sky
And we spilled our secrets and
Dreams and
E V E R Y T H I N G.
But now my hands are cold
And tired and broken from writing
Tired and broken poetry
About the feel of how my hands are so cold
So empty
And the taste of silence on my tongue.
Just Silence.

I Thought You Were Forever.