Exercise in True Love

My heart broke for the last time last night

When I saw her disappear into the moonlight chasing midnight

As I sat paging through the newspaper reading about who's at war with who?

Who's lying to who? who's beating who?

I reached for my cup of coffee

As black as the minds of men and the hearts of women

And I felt an uncontrollable emptiness.

I looked up and through the glass window

Hazy with a blanket of industry

When suddenly the most beautiful woman appeared

Like a cherub familiar yet strange.

I felt as if I knew her as well as my own secrets

Yet I knew nothing.

I felt an urge to jump out of my seat and hold her

Then I realized a beauty of this magnitude

Need not be tarnished by the expectations of another

Nor could she ever again be what she was to me

At that very moment an ounce of faith

For a soul drunk with apathy.

It's strange how we instinctively

Attempt to alter what we love

Often spawning the antithesis of its own incarnate.

This masochistic ignorance defines our species

And will ultimately lead to our demise.

As for my love outside that window

Untainted she walks alone.

I hope you know

I hope you know that I love you for

Forever and when forever never comes

You'll be in my arms together-together-forever-forever

We are one

We are one