there was a time long ago before we turned the page
when the strength of love was still on our side
when our own hearts danced upon a slippery stage
and long before the intimacy between us died

we struggled in this routine that we laid so fast
trying to cope and learn of each other’s needs
we were young starting out wanting so to last
not knowing just how to accomplish these deeds

we look in the mirror and the reflection stares back
as if we were someone different replaced by time
what we were does not match if we kept on track
for this mountain of ours was too great a climb

and then our todays became yesterdays and still
they have slipped between our fingers like the rain
sliding down the past like liquid mercury on the hill
filling our memories with these photographs of pain

there was a time when we did not have a clue
when being naive was poison taken in the dark
the future could not reveal itself so we never knew
but every mistake made had somehow left a mark

we were too busy to notice the writing on the wall
too involved in others to see we changed our lives
we slid apart and then failed to recognize its fall
a problem repeated between husbands and wives

we did not do very well in relinquishing our parts
this is stuck in our past although we have moved on
and yet the guilt of letting it die is within our hearts
for not trying a hundred percent and now it is gone

so explain to me why you still appear in my dreams
as if nothing else had even happened ever since
time has gone backwards as crazy as that seems
and I know that none of that is making any sense

© Amor Sabor 2012