A Separation

We

Even we

We met beneath firs and twinkling lights

Earth put on her finest

Red wine, twilight sky

Everything seemed right.

It was Autumn when we married

New love under dying leaves

Laughter, across the table

Open hearts, pulsing

Vital signs, two

Eyes become one.

I posted bail.                                                   She tried to take her.

She asked me to abandon my father.                He wouldn't do what's best for his daughter

                                                                      Everything he does, he does for himself

They won't let us part.

His pride wouldn't let him confess                      What right does she have to take my girl?

If you hadn't left, none of this                             Is this how love ends?

Should have ever happened                               Like a unborn baby smashed by a truck?

                                                                      Like a sum of money passed hand-to-hand?

They denied us our divorce                                                       

Here we are, together, apart.                             The divorce papers have all been filed

Every day a broken dream                                 All it needs is a spark

                                                                       Kindness is forgetting

Erasing what was                                             Erase that love    

Now I can go...and if she doesn't come?                                                                       

Dare I go on alone?                                          Here in the mirror I see my father

?                                                                    Each piece of me lost, forgotten

                                                                      Run over by a fault of memory

All I want is for them to be together

Somehow they want me to choose

Elect one of piece of my heart and

Push the other away into the dark

All this time I've done my part to try

Recognizing I was the only one keeping

All of us in the same country, the same city

There's a tear inside of me, and I don't know how

I will ever mend or completely banish this piece of my blood

Or love, how do you expect me to believe in a nonsense like Love

Now we are apart even when we're together, betrayed by the ones...by love.

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