Ever After

And we wait

stalking the sidelines and hugging the walls

And we claim

there was nothing worth saving

and it wasn't our fault

And the water flows under bridges we've burned and we pride ourselves in lessons unlearned and we comfort each other that it wasn't our turn as the the moments tick away

We hesitate

when we should have been living and giving our all

And we blame

random lovers and others

should have broken our fall

And we scatter our hours with wild abandon, we ignore the sun moving toward the horizon, we dismiss the shadows as they steadily lengthen, at the ebbing of the day

We blame fate

pretending it knows us and thinking it cares

But the same

restless longing still dogs us

and it doesn't seem fair

who could have dreamed that it wasn't forever, who could have guessed that we'd  casually sever, the threads that entwined us and the ties that defined us and kept us from floating away

Realize too late

the horizon blew by us while we hung back

and the game

keeps on going without us

now we're fading to black

and who could imagine our best days behind us, barely recalling the things that defined us, not knowing the doors closing softly behind us wouldn't open up again

we avoided the tears 

but missed out on the laughter

we came to a fork in the road

and we stood there ever after

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