Forever Poem by Patrick William Kavanagh

Please don't lie so still, so silent and so cold,
I told you love was just a game to pass the lonely times,
We laughed and played and hugged and kissed, and made up silly rhymes
We built a world of smoke and dreams and moonlit walks,
with starlight in your hair,
And dawn would rise within your eyes and show the lovelight there.

I never said forever and I put you straight, right from start,
All I wanted was a little fun, I never meant to break your heart.
Young and beautiful, the world was yours to take,
You didn't need to take it all to heart,
You didn't need to break.

I always said that love was just a word to tie a lover down.
And though I never said I'd go, I never promised that I'd stay around.
The offer was to good to pass, I had to go away,
I guess you didn't hear me when I said that I'd be back some day.
Now I've come back to find you gone, with nothing left to say.

Just one day sooner and I could have told you, what I'd finally realised,
It took one day for me to know I couldn't live without your smile,
I never even took the time to change, my bags went back unopened on the plane,
I couldn't wait to see your smiling face when I came back again.
And now I'm back, but you can't see, and I can't see a future any more, for me.

He lay beside her silent beauty, in the fading light,
The sleeping pills the duty-free, and one last kiss goodnight,
Perhaps they both are truly sleeping, as the world dreams on,
Perhaps true love can find a way in some far world,
When all the hope left in this world is gone.


20/11/12
Lincolnshire