#236 As If It’d Never Been Poem by Jimmie Arrington

“Everything changes” or so they say,
And you proved that one true today;
For better or for worse.
Old love died and changed to hate;
An opened door, now a locked gate,
A blessing, now a curse.

From quaint beginnings to hasty ends,
You’ve met and loved and lost close friends.
Now wonder where they went.
And the still nights of languid walks,
You loved the sights and parks and docks.
But now they’re all absent.

Note all the roses that you’ve smelt
And all the passions that you’ve felt,
Have slowly withered away.
As well the ghosts that took the place
Of every lost or vanished face,
Have all wandered astray.

The future’s unknown, the past is gone,
You’ve burnt the bridge you once danced on.
Now a river flows between.
And in its wake a silence falls
Which echoes through the empty halls,
Then ends as if it’d never been.