Lamentations

".I'll have savored you like an oyster
memorized you
held you under my tongue
learned you by heart
So that when you leave
I'll write poems"
-Sandra Cisneros

I hold in my hands
memories of yesterday
Dried, fragile petals
on decaying stems
red and white roses
Now turned yellowish-brown
Beauty that has fade
Can never be regained

Sweet tunes and lovely roses
A night of dreams
You belong to me that evening
Like Endymion in Selene's arms
A slave of her love
Just for a night

If only I could stop the earth
From revolving
If only I could freeze the time
It could have been
Only you and me
And the night won't come to an end

But like the roses in my hands
The night is now a memory
That will fade
And will be taken away by time
I can never bring back the magic
For now,
The spell
Is
Over.
Reality
Has
Come
We
Are
Just
friends.