Familiar Strangers

I seem to recall it was two thousand, two

When I started writing this love poem to you

While nothing is sadder than what could have been

The good Lord above wasn’t letting me win

Then life started happening and got in our way

So I planned to finish this some other day

We never were closer than we were that year

But that doesn’t matter it seems to appear

It’s thirty years later and we meet again

I prayed this would happen but didn’t know when

Once young in our twenties and coming of age

Now fate has insisted I finish this page

Since you are the melody, this is the song

The reason you’re stuck in my head all day long

The flames speak of passion, the roses my heart

This poem speaks of hope that sustained us apart

The passage of time couldn’t ever diminish

This story that took me three decades to finish

Now do me a favor, I’m asking in case

Tell me the candles didn’t burn down the place