Never Was

Never Was

A tender kiss, young lover’s bliss,
one sunny ray of hope.
We’d be remiss to cling to this
like strands of fraying rope.
 
Long lonely days, like outcast strays,
we cower ’neath the stars
to dream of life less filled with strife
while tending to our scars.
 
Were you just mist, whose lips I kissed,
love’s ghosts of whom I’d dreamed?
I scream into a balled-up fist—
my soul can’t be redeemed.
 
I claw, I clutch—I grasp at air
I cringe when comes the dawn.
I wonder, were you ever there?
The fire now is gone.
 
 Time never waits nor hesitates
to rewrite destiny.
A longing loathing sealed our fate.
You’re “Never Was” to me.