THE CRUISE
Off to a place we have never been,
a place with no reminders of what we once were.
I won't see your face on every corner,
no chance or hope you'll be there.
For I am somewhere far far away.
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To the middle of the ocean,
so large and impersonal, a place to forget.
There I will cast away, deep into the sea,
All my hopes and dreams,
of what we might have been.
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I glance again at my hand,
and a war of emotions erupt.
For on my finger are still two rings,
that foolishly I use to believe,
promised all my dreams would be fulfilled.
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These rings that use to shine so bright,
with the light of eternal love.
Are now so dull and tarnished,
that it seems they are as dark,
as a moonless night on this ocean.
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To these rings I have bond,
all my hopes and dreams of us,
all the joyfull memories we made together.
To the two simple circles of gold,
I have tied my heart and very soul.
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I stand at the railing,
revisiting the dreams once more.
Remembering that at one time,
They use to bring such joy.
Now I must cast it all away from me.
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I slowly slip the rings from my finger.
I find that cutting out the heart,
that pumps the blood through my body,
would have been less painful.
But still this must be done.
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Now off my finger and laying in my palm,
These simple rings look so harmless.
I close my eyes and in my mind,
tie and bind again all the dreams to them.
One deep breath and now I cast you to the sea.
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As the dreams forever sink,
Deeper towards my forgetting them,
Perhaps if I am lucky,
They may carry with them,
The nighmares they have spawn.
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