Love Was Not Enough for Us

Music: The Marsh of Rhuddlan. Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

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Love was not enough for us, Though we were much in love. We started down the well-worn path, But it was not to be. Delight was not enough for us, Nor tenderness that moved Through years of angry dissonance Towards some dark, bitter sea. Our differences were far too great, Our lives too far apart. We didn't like each other much, But put that truth aside Until one day it was too late To reignite the heart. One told the other, who agreed At last that it had died. But then, ah, then! we felt our loss As unremitting pain, As deep and inconsolable, Unbearable regret. And all alone we had to cross That desert once again That we might know that we had loved Too much to soon forget.