the somberness of waygone places
left scattered in a thousand hues
of smiles and expressions and faces
lost friendships that once gave hope
in long forgotten embraces
of love eternal and loneliness conquered
but no love or time can keep those walls
from building up and crushing us again
none can hold off the distance
that always finds a way back in
and eventually
only words are left us
only words left to communicate our love
only words left to say what you and I were
only words
to let each other know how much we used to mean to each other
hollow, sullen, bare, pathetic
words that exist no more
no more than you and I exist
anymore
in worlds that fade away
across some distant shore
worlds shorn of all who once bore its burden
and all who once were sure
that every such burden
was something worth fighting for
