I am here to tell you we can never meet again

simple really - isn’t it

a word or two and then

a lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when

you think of me or speak of me

or wonder what befell

the someone you once loved so long ago so well



Never wonder what I feel as living shuffles by

you don’t have to ask me

and I do not reply

Every moment in my life from now until I die

I will think or dream of you and fail to understand

how the perfect love can be confounded out of hand



Is it written in the stars

are we paying for some crime

Is that all that we are good for

just a stretch of mortal time

Is this God’s experiment

In which we have no say

In which we live in paradise

but only for the day.



Nothing can be altered oh there’s nothing to decide

no escape, no change of heart, nor any place to hide



You are all I’ll ever want

but this I am denied

Sometimes in my darkest thoughts

I wish I never learned

what it is to be n love

and have that love returned.



Is it written in the stars

are we paying for some crime

Is that all that we are good for

just a stretch of mortal time

Is this God’s experiment

In which we have no say

In which we live in paradise

but only for the day