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Love
Was Not Enough for Us
Love was not enough
for us,
Though we were much in love.
We started down the well-worn path,
But it was not to be.
Delight was not
enough for us,
Nor tenderness that moved
Through years of angry dissonance
Towards some dark, bitter sea.
Our differences
were far too great,
Our lives too far apart.
We didn't like each other much,
But put that truth aside
Until one day
it was too late
To reignite the heart.
One told the other, who agreed
At last that it had died.
But then, ah,
then! we felt our loss
As unremitting pain,
As deep and inconsolable,
Unbearable regret.
And all alone
we had to cross
That desert once again
That we might know that we had loved
Too much to soon forget.
©
Nicholas Gordon
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Nicholas Gordon
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