Perhaps

Happened to stumble across Pablo Neruda and his poem Perhaps.... the following is heavily inspired by the same...

Perhaps to live a lifetime is to share a moment with you,

To close my eyes so your smell would linger a while longer.

The colour of your eyes, lighting a mellow brown dusk

As the cherry blossoms freeze in the moment, still!

Nothing stirs but a familiar pang in our hearts.

As you walk away the moment is passed but is now forever,

The eyes cannot wash away the taste that binds my lips

And that little bit of your smile that you left behind

Fills and outgrows the void

Because in that moment ‘we’ were

And so ‘we’ will always be

And maybe ‘you’ will live a lifetime longer than ‘me’

But ‘we’ will always live a lifetime together and free.