Valentines Poem by grace mariner

Oh the changes that can happen in the blink of an eye or in a lifetime.
You were seen on my face little more than a year ago.
Bright shining happiness.
But now a different face stares back at me...
worn and lined, it tells a different story.
We were already sullied.
Perhaps that was part of the draw.
Not planned by us.
Influenced by something far greater,
well beyond our grasp.
You were mine and never mine.
I was yours.
I am yours.
But you ran, afraid of the intensity of it all.
My super hero is now a super villain but girls love bad boys.
And the sweet wine is now bitter and the taste wont leave my tongue.
And the shiny happy face is distorted.
The green eyes you loved are dull and lifeless due to your escape and the drugs I use to cope with it.
My faces story is sad and abandoned, even though you never were truly mine.
The world of love will celebrate itself this Sunday.
Those broken who live in my world will hide themselves away,
avoiding the mirror as the day reminds us of our losses, our changes that occur in the blink of an eye, the beat of a heart,
a lifetime of pain.
So Happy Valentines my beautiful giant, my cowardly lover, my vile prisoner.
I will drink a toast of our bitter brew and blow a kiss to the wind,
to you now, to us then.