Falling Out

the mind shuts out
what the heart
does not forget
and i ask myself: "how could i?"
there was a bridge that spanned
our discrete lives together
a link to a world
only we understood.

every day, the memories take me back
to where we have been
every night, i smell my pillow
and there is you mixed in the jasmine of my dreams

i look back now and i see:
it was not the shortness of time we kissed
i sought beauty and only beauty...
it's not true we did not love
nobody knows except my heart