New encounters help to reset the score
Fresh ink designed to hide the wounds I bore
Gradually the old equilibrium returns
A steady calm a fire that no longer burns
Yet my reflexes still know your design
I choose the dish that once you said was fine
A perfect imperfect ache
A half they cannot ever separate or take
My mind knows you were never the right one
No forever still you were my sun
I worked to be a piece your life contained
Perhaps this loss is just how growth is gained
We are separate stories bound and done
Our old delight replaced by unknown none
We paid each other with our youth’s gold
We saved the silt for futures to unfold
Like a classic tune a well-worn plot so dear
Its echo will outlive this present year
My mind knows you were never the right one
No forever still you were my sun
I worked to be a piece your life contained
Perhaps this loss is just how growth is gained
We are separate stories bound and done
Our old delight replaced by unknown none
It is hard to speak of every vanished thing
I truly tried to hold you like a king
I needed you
If I commanded feelings in the night
Or banished darkness for eternal light
I was but a fleeting light inside your scene
You are you with prospects bright and evergreen
Too lazy to forget too bored to start
This mistimed care I bury deep inside my heart