Back When We Were in Love

A Poem

Photo by Aldo Delara on Unsplash

do you remember better days
when we tried to make it work,
no matter what the world told us
about who we were
and what we wanted —
beyond any scope of life
as we would come to know?

your mother said we’d never last —
that we were like a comet streaming
across the dark, dark sky,
never meant to bear the light of day —
and you didn’t say a word,
not one single line of defense,
while something crumbled inside me

do you remember better nights
when we loved enough to fill
our own little sphere of dreams,
thinking we’d catch the stars
and land among the clouds
while blowing kisses to the moon?
oh, what lives we once led

my father wouldn’t give his blessing —
and so we thought we’d run away,
take to the streets at midnight,
but the car broke down halfway
and you laughed as if you were relieved —
why did you choose to break my heart
in the smallest yet cruelest…