One Love

The world makes my love look like an ephemeral ecstasy

One push can make the castle I made

Crumple into dust

And they think when you're not there

Tomorrow I'll go looking for another love

Then why am I still here?

Still grieving over the memories that you engraved in my heart

Why do I still go to that park and spend my evenings shedding tears?

The space next to me stays empty

Love, you don't know how it breaks my heart.

Those midnight nightmares hound me in our bedroom

I wake up screaming, waiting for your familiar arms to hold me like you used to

But they don't come around.

It's a kind of emptiness that can fail the helpless hollering of the wanderer who is left blind in a labyrinth with no way out.

You were the sun in my ever-empty sky

At the end of the day, I still find you among the sprinkles of the stars.

I know you're just a few breaths away

They tell me a tale of the blooming rose

But they don't smell like the Grandiflora my first love put in my hair.

I still bathe every morning in the light of your dawn

And you can't make the sun rise twice in someone's life who believes in one love for a lifetime.