Never Last

There's a feeling lingering for how long, I do not know

that what we had, though beautiful through the years,

is no longer growing

We met when we were young and bold

held each other when the nights got cold

But the days of youth have long past

and as permanence set it, I wanted something that'd last

And... it seems to me, we are not it

There were so many times when I ignored the signs

told you that I wanted a certain tone, a certain rhyme

yet years and years after you still couldn't understand

I had to speak another language if we are to stand a chance

There were times I wish you were more like this or that

but you never were, and I've come to accept that you're not

Yet deep inside I know the one who will know me knows

those songs I sing inside me, which you don't know the chorus

We've loved each other deeply, don't you ever mistaken

that all these years of togetherness have all been in vain

You were there at my best, at my lulls, and at my worst

I've seen you for years as you are, naked and unclothed

But intimacy doesn't always lead to a lifetime of togetherness

perhaps we are one of those temporary stops that the universe sends

A blessing of beautiful things happening in a span of years

yet not much longer, until we move on to find someone dear

As we say goodbye, part ways forevermore

Know that a part of me will always long for you

Your companionship, your presence, your voice calming my soul

Even if you're no longer here, there will always be an echo

I am unsure of how we are going to take separate roads

The process will be painful, there'll be broken hearts where fears abode

But it is also inevitable, like the certainty in my heart

that you're not the person I'm meant to share my entire self, my soul's art