These are the dark times,
the hard times, the hours when
the shadow figures come to stay.

These are the spaces in which
history is mixed with emotion,
confusing the memory of former days.

These are the only words to escape
from the immense gravitational pull,
one lover crushed, the other lost to space.

To see beyond the horizon
requires breaking free of the confine
which gives life chase, for …

These are the dark times,
the hard times, the hours when
we have forgotten love found

in that special, safe place.