I am here to tell you we can never meet again



Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then



A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when



You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell



The someone you once loved so long ago so well







Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by



You don't have to ask me and I need not reply



Every moment of my life from now until I die



I will think or dream of you and fail to understand



How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand











Is it written in the stars



Are we paying for some crime



Is that all that we are good for



Just a stretch of mortal time











Is this God's experiment



In which we have no say



In which we're given paradise



But only for a day











Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide



No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide



You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied



Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned



What it is to be in love and have that love returned