As I'm walking away
does it ever occur
that this could have been avoided
that compromises could have been afforded
as we part indifferently
each reflecting
on the simplicities
of a failed romance
and an ended friendship

when we look
to our pasts
will we regret our choices
or discount our mistakes
gloss over our failures
and let the memories
fade away

there are times
when it matters
and we just don't care
we let the little things
slip our grasp
like so much sand
on the this endless beach
we call life

when the moments falter
and we realize
that it all matters
it... is too late
and everything we cared for
has slipped so far away
and age has slipped heavily in
we spend the rest of eternity
trying to relive those experiences

We, forget who we are
what we have become
and why we gave it all away
over petty indifferences
and a fear of what it all could become
and the pain we knew would eventually
inject itself into the happiest moments of our lives

so now we run
as fast as we can
toward an indeterminate future
hoping we don't make the same wrong decisions
which inevitably end
in a broken heart
a broken soul
and mind full of doubt

remember me
like I remember you
for we have forged in each of us
a love that has changed us both
and leaves us forever altered
indifferent as it seems
to the forward momentum of time
as we leave our pasts so far behind
but please just steal this one moment
for us to be together
for eternity
reliving a bliss
that failed
and I will never walk away
from you
from what we did
from where we went
from the reality we created
intertwined
and then left behind
to pursue our hollow dreams
and worthless aspirations