we may have lost the battle, but we have not lost the war

blood now splattered on the floor,

the cry of widows now adorned the streets

daughters without their fathers

sons without their chosen ones

soon you’ll see, love isn’t free

i see you there, on the field, of war

broken and bloody

my heart no longer soars

i no longer can keep score

the enemy is coming

but you have left me, kneeling on the field

my love in pieces

around your lonely body no longer

breathing

my love, i thought we could’ve had, 1000 years, but now i see it was cut short

please darling, i feel alone

i once believed we could face no end, but i see now, the truth now

the fight is done

the war is won

our flags are held, and yet

not all warriors came home that night

lost in battle

all gone

you once told me

your heart was mine

, it’s gone, buried deep

6 feet

the dust collects and still i’m not free

they saw time heals all wounds,

but not this one

years have passed

and still i weep on days that remind me of you

my friends have come and gone as one, except now i think i’ll never move on

take care my dear

my attention is captured

by a lonely face amongst the crowd of the crying people

who have lost the one

and won’t move on

i see them, and they see me

you are not gone

from my memory, or heart

but my love has expanded

i’ve married them

like you wanted me to

some days are hard but they’re they are

kneeling with me

missing their own, but we hold fast

no longer alone

so now more years have come and gone, and the dust has settled,

my wounds are heals

both of the body and heart

i have no more scars

the children and ask of tales

of glory and pain and i tell them

of our sweet tale

how short it was

but the one i now love holds me and i hold him

we both sing songs

of grand disasters

together, i see pain

it flees