What I Fear

They were young

And in love

A classic story

Told a thousand times

She called him when she woke

And before he fell asleep.

He dreamed of being together

And living in vulnerable peace.

But now he no longer fixes cars

And she no longer fixes lives

He sits in his office

And watches the young secretaries

Come

And go

So full of life

And hope

She only sees people

Who are in a last ditch effort

To stay

Together

So desperately empty

And alone

"I never knew,"

She says to herself

"That this love and life

Would fade

All the excitement of love

Being blown away."

"I never thought,"

He whispers in his mind

"That there were others

More and more

With everything I sought

And everything I thought I found"

So they return home

To their hollow house

Full of regret

And disappointment

And she looks to him

To dispel the fear

And he looks to her

To draw him near 

But instead they begin to break

And slowly they fall, far apart.