It’s Been a Long Time

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It’s been a long time

Since I’ve spoken your name

And It’s been a long time

Since I’ve held your gaze

It’s been awhile now

Since I’ve heard your voice

Perfect gilded memories

Slow burned down to noise

And it most often doesn’t matter

And I usually don’t care

But my thoughts

They sometimes wander

To a place we used to share

It’s like a sonnet never finished

Or a Novel that we burned

It’s a poem left un-recited

A Happy Ever After…

That we never earned

I seem to recall now

A promise that we made

But as it played out

Only lies prevailed

And I still remember

Every word we said

It seems that sadly somehow

Wrong words caused a death

And it most often doesn’t matter

And I usually don’t care