When love is no more, when words fail

Pain seeps in and crowds out reason

Anger’s heat burns any return to romance

But memories still linger, they lay still

Awakened by a heartbeat’s jarring nudge

The heart remembers days of joy and happiness

And nights by the fire, with hungry kisses

The heart remembers those urgent whispers

The tenderness that brought tears

From feelings as deep as the ocean

And a passion, blazing as an inferno

Why can’t sweet memories be our fixer?

Why can’t tenderness heal and sooth

Does not the memory of our passion

Burn away all hurt and regret into ash?

Just turn around, my love, and remember

Isn’t this why we braved going thru the fire?