Could Not Last

The intense relationship that once was so much more,
than the memory of our truth could ever possibly endure.
There was an honesty within those emotions, that time has now

forsaken,
leaving behind more passion, than the purity of love could ever

have taken.

Now forever lost within that once unyielding embrace,
an uncontrollable lust that exploded to make our hearts race.
A surreal physical attraction that has withered away into

nothingness,
Leaving an unconditional love so forlorn, so utterly defenseless.

The struggle to hold on to a tryst that for so long was savored,
a gentleness of a touch lost, sweet memories no longer favored.
A doomed encounter within a time that understandably could not

last,
the reason behind the broken heart, now left forever in the past.

How we dare not become more familiar within such propensities,
as there will never be a way to recapture that insane intensity.
No way to validate the reasons behind the way we now feel,
being left with only a love child, to prove that it once was real.

Shay White
Copyright 2001