some people
are never meant to keep love
for some
love will dance
and skip
and pirouette
then bow and disappear
leaving only regret
through a memory
that you cannot forget
a scent, a taste
of what love was
it's warm embrace
faded like a distant light
into the night
to a place
from where love
may never return

some people
are never meant to keep love
it's true
so remember them
if ever
you love someone
if ever
someone loves you
and you treat love
with disrespect
remember that they
who have lost love
would give so much
to have even a little
of what you have
to see again
that dance
that bowed
into the night
to a place
from where love
may never return