Flat Gradient

Some love stories are a celebration of mutual affectation 
Some are waking up to a day of multiple shades
Of blues and gray

The relief of weathering past
Grieving what we can’t have back
Distraught of what we can’t have at all

Learned to accept
what is fleeting
Will soon be swept

Away, as these we try to hold dear
Try to get close
Will soon be gone

So I grieve you now even before
The clock runs out
While still overcome with joy

Mixing the ecstatic moments
With this bitter wine
Awash in reality of what can’t be had
Can’t be mine