Parachute Required

Free Fall

I’m undone by loss tonight

I’ve been forced back to earth

I wonder if you’d even care

To hear what it was worth

To be held, dangled by a thread

Passed through sun filled clouds

To be swayed softly through the music

And have my own heart sung out loud

We were far flung candlelight

Roses, wine and autumn leaves

Well read books, fingers intertwined

I was hope, you were chivalry

Now it’s just ache glossed memories

Whispers and secrets broken

All that’s left are my pocket wishes

What I believed, but was never spoken

But time, like the wandering tides

Will dance on through the ebb & flow

I’ll see behind me less and less

But for now my scars still show

So I’m undone by pain tonight

Bitter gravity pressing me to earth

I know one day I’ll cease to care

I’ll breathe, laugh and know my own worth