Lost
It was a long time ago
Laughing together in locked embrace
Staring up at starry skies through broken canopies
Stars… Their images still glowed bright in her mind
Like the precious jewels they were
Precious memories tucked away in hidden corners
This is called…
And that is a…
She remembered his every word
Every so often
She gazed at the shadows of nightfall
Tried to remember their names
But it had become harder with the passages of time between them
She realised that they had simply become stars again
No longer past insights on what they had shared
And she wept for the loss of it all