JolieRougeArt

Lost my way, My girl, My home, My job, My name, Taken from me... Skulk around...trying to forget, Boring others with vivid memories... Making no sense, Everything ripped from my grasp... People say I've changed, Friends...slipping away, Understand why I can't think straight? How it can all go astray? Just how fast you can lose everything?

Going back in my heart to memories unfaded, Things I remember, what once was, Of little green bugs and ribbin' you 'cause you look like Jeannie, Jokes and teasing that brought our hearts close. Sitting and talking for hours on end, I remember... Sayin' I was sweetest person you had ever known, The sky so blue as we laid on the grass together, Memories that remain, though we are no longer one. Eating smoked oysters and nights in a big tub, My eyes fill with tears as I look back in my heart and mind, You're out with another, "special" means nothing it seems, The bleachers are cold, as they echo with words untold. The heart can only take so many faded dreams, They dance around like fireflies, Remembering all the good things that brought me to you, Never forgetting what I had, hoping that you remember too...

Questions asked, with no answer in return... Pleasure taken, before a soul's voice was heard. A heart rent below, with visions of lust... Proposals put forth, before the heart was cast. He returns once more from travels many... Taking advantage of that which was forsaken. Fleeting words that care not of the pain... Questions answered, and love found in vain. Respect for love's secret places...torn asunder... A flower crushed, the petals ruined under trod. Advantage taken without a sound... A world gone mad, with love no longer found.

I asked for your hand, Small was the ring but you accepted, One on the way as we walked down the road, Nothing more was said when we couldn't handle the load. Then you came and I bought two bands, Hurried plans were laid, alas, the moment passed, I wanted so to walk the road again, Someone came between us and I spoke my harsh goodbyes. Your forbidden love was given, Fire red hair lying across my lap as you said "I love you", Leaving one for me, I thought this road was true, In the end the fire faded as bursts of passion often do. I lost you because I played the fool, Forgetting myself to pursue a lust that was untrue, I still remember asking as our souls became one, Your strawberry hair glistening with love's sweet dew. I asked you in September, not so long ago, Broke my heart and blocked the road with pain, Engaged for All Hallows Eve but we didn't find the way, I sit and reminisce, looking back on my life in May.