Broken

We knew it must come to this.

Failure and loss no redemption here.

What was expected comes to pass.

Love: wasn’t that just a careless illusion

Hope: something you knew never to trust.

For it all goes wrong in the end.

And you were waiting for this moment

Ready with a snort of derision

When we had come all this way that you would see something beautiful.

That we might be like others are: friends and lovers.

But it seems actions have no meaning and fears walk with flesh.

And I cannot argue with illusion.

Nor deny this failing.

Cannot sleep without you, though you are long gone.

Perhaps I was too slow to keep up with you.

Perhaps too old to care.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter any more.

Except

No one can ever replace you and I will mark this loss ’til the end

And pray for that to be quicker now you’re gone