Year 3

There is a softness in the air tonight,

It surrounds me, the scent of you is everywhere.

Do you remember when we met? Lying beneath the willow tree.

How excited we would get, by the idea of forever,

Just you and I.

It feels like it was so long ago, I was 26 and you were 29.

You just turned 32 and this month in April, I’ll be 29.

Look just how quickly time can pass by.

There is a softness in my eyes,

When I now think of it all.

The time that is, that seems to have left us behind.

Where did it go?

Where could we be?

Who would have known?

There is no more you and me.

Isn’t that silly?

Or maybe it’s just as it’s meant to be.

We won’t know until time shows us, as it’s shown us so much in these last three years.

How many smiles?

How many tears?

Will I know you in the coming year?

Will time begin to heal what I’ve begged to overcome.

How many more times will I grovel,

And become undone.

I’m learning so much about myself,

And this chapter I’ve just begun.

But nevermind about the time that has passed.

The present is what will last.

There is a softness in the air tonight,

As you lay down beside me,

Both our hands again, finally intertwined.