Our hearts just won’t die,
We were so short lived, almost a mirage
but I felt everything with you
I have cared and loved before
but with you it rushed in all at once
I looked for you in strangers long before I knew you
and then suddenly there you were
flannels, jeans, baseball cap
a smile on your face

We held hands as if we had done it before
even if it was our first time, it felt right
You played with my rings
I played with your hair
I stroked your cheek
And I got lost in you

And I swear I could hear the stars falling,
our souls intertwined, an entire universe collapsed,
a dizzy spell and electricity at my fingertips

Have I ever felt more alive? Have you?

“I’m scared”
“Of what”
“That it won’t work”
“Why wouldn’t it”
“I’m just unlucky in love”
You said nothing, kissed my forehead
held me gently, my face buried in your neck
We were so good that day
it was perfect

You spoke to my soul in ways no one ever has
And then you left
You said it was all happening too fast
too much too real

A part of me knew this was coming
Another part begged you to stay
We’ll make it work
yet we barely know each other
But that’s the problem, you see
We fell before knowing one another

I know you inside out
yet I don’t know you at all

So go if you need to
Go out into the open country
move across the world
try to erase me from your mind
But your soul, oh your soul
it knows mine
even if you don’t know me at all

And the words you said to me
your lips at my neck
your breath in my ear
the way your palm rested on my cheek
“we might be soulmates”

And then the words I said in fear and anger
the words you threw back
your truth
my truth
truths that cannot coexist
just before you pulled away

Oh Romeo, should we go backward? Forward? Should we fight for the right feelings in the wrong circumstances, should we let go? The mayhem in me, the turmoil in you, alas a voice echoed in me, this time it wasn’t meant to be

You cannot undo time
just like you cannot undo love
Our hearts just won’t die

No matter how much time
how much distance
how much pride and fear
we place between us

Even something brief can linger
and our hearts just won’t die
I know you’ll look for me again

One day you’ll come knocking at my door
a little more wrinkled, grey hairs starting to show
carrying life, experiences, stories
a smile on your face, calm, kind
and there we will be, two strangers meeting again

I’ll laugh that you still have the same kind eyes
the same ones I fell for all those years ago
I’ll laugh about how we grew old never fully apart
how our stories are still intertwined
how our short time together stayed with me
how in everything I did, in some way
you never left

And maybe this time we’ll wait
We won’t fall too fast or burn too bright
We won’t mistake the spark for the forest fire

Maybe this time we’ll learn each other slowly
the way trees age over years
the way rivers expand as they flow

And if we don’t
oh love, at least we tried
At least we loved
At least we lived

Because maybe love isn’t always meant to stay
Maybe sometimes it is meant to brush us briefly
softly, quietly
So go
Grow
Become everything you’re meant to be
far from the ghost of us
far from the hurt of it all

stars falling,
souls intertwined

an entire universe collapsed,
a dizzy spell,

electricity at my fingertips

I’ll always be your Juliette
you my Romeo
not because we stayed
but simply because our hearts just won’t die

And if our paths never cross again
know this
You were a chapter I read too fast
and closed faster
but it broke me
And I’ll read you again
even only in memories
in a world where I’m still yours
and you’re still mine