Like driftwood on a deserted beach

Our love’s abandoned, far from reach

The past, engulfed by fires of liberties took
Reciting hollow words from half-read books

Fearlessly we had wandered love’s convoluted path
Arriving sooner than most, unaware we wouldn’t last
Through unclenched fingers, love slipped away
Togetherness uprooted, lost and gone astray

No consideration nor desire to save love's sigh
Antipathy infected all likely reasons why
Bickering conversations, back and forth, to and fro
We were both gratified when farewell replaced hello 

Our romance is over; when all’s said and done 
Love came a sorry third in a race it should've won
Forever was the time frame that we once aspired
Yet we broke each other's hearts; love expired.