When we forgive
and the world doesn’t change,
when we ask,
and our heart breaks
we really cannot avoid
that despair
that distant echo
what once was,
what could be,
even if we knew
from the start
there would be pain.
One time
in a porch
with a flapping tarp
in the rain,
we did express love,
we cried,
we hugged,
we kissed and time went by.
If we might have returned
the memory
could have destroyed
everything good in our lives.
Then was a certain fantasy,
today, our tragedy.