I Loved You, but I Could Not Wait Forever

Music: Fugue in F# major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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I loved you, but I could not wait forever. I made my choice, but you would not make yours. In some delays, a year’s as good as never, As what is lost no change of heart restores. I love you still, but cannot think of you Without the bitter longing of regret. This, too, will pass, I know, and time renew The innocence one needs to love, and yet . . . You were my once, that never comes again, A happiness untouched by any past. Whatever love comes next comes with the stain Of knowing well this love might well not last. Goodbye, my love! I hope someday you’ll be Ripe for the love you could have had from me.