A fleeting moment
Of letting her guard down
That's all it was
Surely he must know that?

A fleeting moment
Of catching a glimpse of
His troubled soul
Brooding and dark

His everlasting embrace
That once filled her with warmth
Suddenly turned ice cold
Numbing her inside and out

It was as if
Her pitiful state
Was all her fault
His words harshly cut through
Her beating heart
Then he disappeared
From the face of earth
A fleeting moment...
And a wistful smile
Found its way
Across her face

Pangs of unrequited love
Shook her body
Her silent sobs are forever etched
Into the lonely room
Ricocheting off the plain walls
Haunting her
Taunting her
With their painful presence

Tempestuous tides of an emotion
Akin to lovesickness
Washed over her
Whilst she sat
Inconspicuously crying in one corner
Traces of emotion
Slowly ebbed away
Gone just like that
Like a wispy cloud
Leaving her with nothing
To hold onto
Nothing good ever came
From loving a ghost anyway

Ruins of their love
Reduced to dust
In a spilt second
Now, navigating through
The dark taverns
Delirium takes hold
The cold winds nipped at her neck

Searching for a lost connection
An utterly useless escapade,
In the middle of nowhere
Walking on the same forsaken roads
That tell rueful tales
Of the same tragic odyssey
Of two lovers on their way
To becoming strangers

Strangely familiar roads
Once travelled by on sunny days
Somehow become ordinary
Realizations boomed inside
Her throbbing head...
Nothing could have stopped him
From drifting apart
Out of sight
Far away
Falling for him
Was only the beginning of the end
And she has no more energy to spend