by Mortimer

Created on: February 06, 2009

Love Not Meant to Be

An exercise in futility,
Pretending you mean nothing to me.
My heart is caught up in a rhyme
That belonged to me when you were mine.

You were my poetry,
Echoing beauty in all I could see.
You touched off dreams in me,
Entangled gently, love not meant to be.

I know you think that I'll survive your leaving;
To ease your mind I've told you that I will.
But a life without you I just don't believe in
And I can't pretend that I don't love you still.

To edit you out is major surgery;
My pen spurts ink in colors, bloodstained.
A razor is powerless to cut you from me
For in every part of me you are ingrained.

I captured your heart but that didn't hold you.
It's down to the wire; you're walking away.
I lost a game whose rules I never knew.
Baby, losing you is more than I can pay.

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