Twenty years have passed, and yet,
My sugar-coated memories won't let me forget,
How you once were drawn to me like the air I breathe ~~
And that you never loved me, I refuse to believe.
Our spirits were entwined by a golden thread,
As my barren soul, you nurtured and fed ~~
My life has yet to find meaning without you;
And how I often wonder if you ever miss me, too.
When your marriage ended and you were set free,
I believed you were starting over in love with me ~~
Yet, I was just the one to soften your fall;
A rebound love affair, and that's all.
But I cannot forget the tranquility in your face;
A gentleness of spirit none other can replace ~~
I'll never understand how it ended so quickly for you,
When after twenty years gone, I'm still not through.
It seems I will never run out of love for you;
Or maybe it's just a sugar-coated memory to which I'm true ~~
Regardless of the years I try,
My heart has yet to say good-bye.
I know our lives will never rediscover love,
After so many years, that's all I dreamed of ~~
If fate were going to join us again,
Certainly it would have already been.
Twenty years gone, and I still look for your face,
Strolling alone down Main Street, or in a crowded marketplace;
To seize a fleeting opportunity, I glance around,
Then go on about my life, as you're no where to be found.
Through summers and winters and every season of these twenty years gone,
With thousands of sunsets passed and each breaking dawn ~~
There has remained one constant truth I surely know;
When all else crumbles around me, I find this flicker of love still aglow.
