A Distant Ending

Love affairs fade in time,

Like melodies played

With no lyrics set to rhyme.

Stare blindly into empty abyss,

yelling angrily, two strangers

Once kissed, their season passed.

No reason to give substance,

To what their circumstance failed

To make last.

Heartbreak certain,

Curtains fall.

As if love was never

There at all.

Madly in lust, trust ever evasive,

Abrasive discovery

that pain won't heal,

if feelings remain unspoken.

No words to explain away,

How absurdly we let "us" stray

Veered with every

searing misunderstanding,

Demanding what could never be.

Holding back, we wouldn't see

growing old together,

No happily ever after.

No laughter to ease hearts;

We quit before we even started.

Unfit to explore, appeasing the rest

Of the world he faced,

instead of heading to be

embraced by the girl —

who couldn't walk away.

Staying won't last

Before distance breaks

she who lies in waiting,

as he succumbs numbly

to let her fade into the past.