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WHAT MIGHT NOT BE IS

 WHAT MIGHT NOT BE IS  

'Because a star explodes

and a thousand worlds like ours must die

I may never be with you

or even ask why.

"Yet this love

outshines the galaxy"

whispers a heart that cannot lie -

"It shall live beyond eternity

forever you and I."

 

This archaic longing aches from deep inside

my need for you

will always there abide.

Silently it must whisper from a  hidden space - 

hide in shadows,

know that fall from grace.

 

The death of this love

must germinate from within

it's incipient birth

can never begin 

For we are star-crossed lovers by intent -

knowing we can never be joined,

nor blessed by heaven's scent .  

Yet I shall bravely bear

cupid's crazed arrow missing us by just a hairremembering always our last goodbyethat mysterious smile marking  

“That what might not be

is...”