I am nothing

I am nothing

But a fool

How could I believe

We were invulnerable

Bulletproof

Nothing would break

Our spirit

A love forged

In adversity

Would conquer all

Together we traversed mountains

Journeyed to the stars

Followed their

Fall to earth

Kept the chill at bay

As a winter sun

Crawled slowly

Above the Carpatheans

Trawled the oceans

In search of a moon

That fell to earth

Growing old

Would be child's play

Compared to parenthood

A slow journey

Undertaken less in sorrow

Than in hope

Of peaceful restitution

A beginning of new wonder

Together in the eternal

Are you there now

As I am in solitude

Watching the world

Go by

Waiting for a star

To show me the way

Back to you

And the shelter

Of your warm breast

The only place

I know that I belong.