All for Love

I have suspended disbelief today:
I don’t care — I have swallowed everything,
The crazy theories, that dumb song you sing,
The lies you told me when you went away,
The lies when you came back. I felt dismay,
But I pretended that your wandering
Was only what you said, lips hovering
Above my own. I whisper one word, “Stay.”

All lovers are the same since Adam fell,
On every evening watching the sun sink,
Bringing our too-engaged hearts to the brink.
I hoped ours was a tale poets would tell:
No lovers lived so great, or died so well,
But I will be alone by dawn, I think.