Broken Hearts on the Pier

CATEGORY

romance

Where have you been?  
How are you doing?  
I hope you're doing fine. 

Memories of you 
kept me traveling through time. 
Fleeting visions of your face 
race through and through
my mind. 

We thought our love was solid, 
victims of the sublime. 
The choice was mine, 
I had to step aside. 
I had to let you go. 
I was trying to hold you down,
gave you money and vows
but I found 
that I never let you grow. 
Young love was dumb love
but still love; 
That's all I know.
I can’t even hide it.
The ink drops and emotions flow.
 
You went off to college, 
I went to the Navy.
Pursuant of knowledge,
don’t evade me.

I was insecure. 
I was scared, 
Scared that you would
erase me!

The villain of my feelings,
against myself,
I was unprepared. 
I came back from deployment,
looked around, no one was there. 
Imagine my emotions. 
I signed my life to my country;
then my world disappeared. 
Love turned to ashes;
passionate embers in the air. 
Broken hearts on the pier. 
Damn.