WINTER LOVE (o)

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The flame burns lower
   with each moment we have.
Our love grows colder
   as winters leaves turn to dust.
Was love to me a summer on the beach?
To fall and fail as Fall came to reach?
The summer sun has faded, and is gone.
We have fallen into a winter of despair. 
So cold apart, but only you seem to care.

Shall we pass each other
   on this highway called life?
Me cursing the slower
   and making you cry?
Or does the snow on the road impede our pace?
Why, in this blizzard, do I continue to race?
Spinning my tears in the sleet in my lane,
I gesture through my window to inflict you with pain.

My outlook of love
   grows colder with time.
Why do I gaze through winter
   as though snow blind? 
Still, tomorrow will be spring, could love be renewed?
I shall throw another log on the flame,
Our love may burn on for yet one more day.
Tomorrow I'll search for buds on the trees.
Tomorrow, again, we shall walk on the beach.

-dp-
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The flame burns lower
   with each moment we have.
Our love grows colder
   as winters leaves turn to dust.
Was love to me a summer on the beach?
To fall and fail as Fall came to reach?
The summer sun has faded, and is gone.
We have fallen into a winter of despair. 
So cold apart, but only you seem to care.

Shall we pass each other
   on this highway called life?
Me cursing the slower
   and making you cry?
Or does the snow on the road impede a swift pace?
Why, in this blizzard, do I continue to race?
Spinning my tears in the sleet in my lane,
I gesture through my window to inflict you with pain.

My outlook of love
   grows colder with time.
Why do I gaze through winter
   as though snow blind? 
Still, tomorrow will be spring, when love is renewed.
I shall throw another log on the flame,
Our love will burn on for a least one more day.
Tomorrow I'll search for buds on he trees.
Tomorrow, again, we shall walk on the beach.

-dp-