Time takes its toll
On a withered dream
The love couldn’t hold
Another failure tale told
It is a page
Full of regrets
Untested tests
Knees buckled
Eyes couldn’t stop crying
No method of apology
Just reflections in an anthology
Turned my back on the past
Solemnly, it is no longer welcome
Expression of depression
Lacked in certain direction
Stricken by unusual infection
Not allowed to feel such affection
Found the deepest hole
Burying my dream
No time for lies untold
Nothing more is to unfold
The truth’s unfeeling and cold
No room to show emotion
No formula for the magic love potion
Can no longer maintain this backward motion
Withering away
This love is depleted
Withering dream
Horribly misled
Withering love
Rapidly retreated
Time takes its toll
On a withered dream
The love wasn’t meant to hold
Another sad story told

