Tertiary Corollary

We almost had it this time
Echoing in my heart and mind

Shivering down my spine

How my thoughts tend to replay and rewind

Always figured we were meant to be

Laughing at the impossibility 

Lingering with your arms around me

Doubting still our durability

Reality has never measured up

Or we never let it

What's changed exactly?

Now are we simply desperate?

Or have we come to realize

Reality just doesn't make sense -

Really, unless we're together

Earnestly, I don't know if that's a pretense

After everything we've been through

Choosing to try to all again

Has me so very worried

Still, the possible good outweighs the possible pain

Hope is such a dangerous thing

Offering my heart in favor of it

Risking so much believing that

Echoing worries won't cause us to quit

Trying so hard to believe it

Oh, I want to, I do

Give me some time

Echos will fade - shall they outlast you?

Truly, I've always felt we're meant to be

How you've challenged that conviction 

Even though you felt it too

Risking once more valediction 

Don't give up on us, dear

Endeavor to hang on this time

And I'll hold you in my heart always

Remnants of you in every word that I rhyme