A Heart Breaks

You were my world at daybreak;
Shining, glowing with the amber light
That grew to passion's fiery red
Long before the morning awoke.
We thought we would last forever,
Knew our torch would light the way.
Pity that the flame concealed the
Demons lurking in the smoke.

Time can be an evil teacher
When the truth at last unveils
The colors hidden in the heart
Which, early on, were cloaked and masked.
Had we seen in the beginning
What the trek of time revealed,
We would not have made the journey,
Would not have been so sorely tasked.

All the wonders one foresees
While other roads the mind forsakes.
This path was not meant to be.
In the end...  a heart breaks.

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