Ever After
We're Broken People
I used to think we were forever ever.
You once said
You wanted to protect me
You said you were afraid
To lose me
You said loving me
Was easy
As easy
As breathing
Air.
But a love like that
Was too free
And a love so loosely tied
To each other
Would only hurt us
You see
Our love was a kite
And we flew that kite
Together
The winds were gentle at first
But the higher the kite went
And the more complacent we became
The stronger the winds blew
The string unravelled into the sky
Setting the kite into the clouds
Higher
And higher
Until we couldn't see our kite anymore
Then a strong gust of wind
Blew us off our feet
And we struggled
To stay upright
And then we saw
The black dot in the sky
The shadow of our kite
Hurtling down towards us
Broken and destroyed
The wind
Had ripped through it's fragile cloth
And left a hole in it's wings
Do you see now?
How the both of us
Ruined each other?
They said a love that was fire
Would only burn the other
But love that was air
Was just as painful
We let go too easily
Of the other
What we needed
Was a love that had been through hell
And back
Been through the coldest deserts
And survived
What we needed
Was a love like diamond
Unbreakable
Pure
A love that was our clarity
A love that started off as raw diamond
Polished and cut to perfection
Through our own will
Our own work
For a love we wanted to keep
A love
Made to last
But I guess
We were only temporary huh?
We were never forever
And our love grew old
Before even us
We just weren't
Each other's ever after.