Forever

What of those vows, you ask.
That promise to be forever
Together, faithful, loyal
in love, forever?

If those vows haunt you
Don’t they murder my nights and days too?
But together is a lonely state to be in
If it is forever.

Passions rise and are quelled
Feelings die and are born
People meet and they part
Each of us dies a million deaths
In a single lifetime

But what of those vows, you ask
To live and die together?
In which of these million deaths,
Have I found a life without you?

In each memory of my death,
I see your image
In every life that I was born into,
I have known your anguish

Love was reborn each time
Sometimes mine, sometimes yours
Today doesn’t it smolder still
In a cautious nook of your heart and in mine?

And yet together is a lonely state to be in
If it is forever.