Lasting Love (is not Known to Me)

You told me love

(Our love)

Stretched endless golden miles

Unbound

You told me love

(Our love)

Would hold my heart as you and I

Together

Unbound together

Age forever

Silken tether

From me to you

Then stars unaligned

And here in mortal stress I find

My loss open, my heart closed

Cracks in cradles in my mind

Sharpness begs me to kiss

To find salvation from chance rolled

To abandon caution for a coronation

As bitter Queen of Memory

But the roller- unforgiving mistress Life

Despairs to find that lover cold

Me, I forsake that Life

As Ruler of Memory

Instead I scatter lowly chance

To realms beyond the mortal eye

And thus escape from icy chains

Existing only in my memory