So The Day Goes On Poem by Paul Reed

And so the day goes on…
Hearts, unbound and beating separately
Taking love at face value and literally
The night will come and set them free
Something to rest their memories on;

For a while we walked together
Hurriedly flew the clouds of grey
Not one worry did we have that day
All our cares joined and slipped away
As if bound by invisible tether;

No longer grows the husk-ripened corn
In breezing fields where we once ran
Before the woes and tears began
The sun-charmed boy grew into a man
Even on the day he was born.