I pray Thee

i’d love to sit in a place that promises tomorrow
Where I will hardly remember past heroes
In a state where faithful and loyal means something
For you’re beginning to fade from my memory
Your thoughts no longer rake my mind and keep me awake
I no longer yearn for you
I no longer stalk your pages
I no longer view your pictures
Figments and fragments, that what’s left
Of the moments we thought would never end
The pledges we once made sits in the bottom of the ocean
Sinking deeper into the empty
This story now reads, “once upon a time.”

Vera