Once Upon a Time I Loved

Once Upon a Time I Loved and Lost Beneath the sun, our shadows intertwined, A fleeting dream beneath a tender sky. Each whispered vow, as soft as winds confined, Dissolved like stars when morning lights comply. Your smile, a spark, now ash upon the breeze, A phantom warmth that lingers in the cold. Yet time, the silent thief, will never seize The echoes of a love once brash, then old. Though paths diverged, your voice still hums to me, A hymn of joy and sorrow's sweet refrain. Your absence shapes the hollow I now see, An endless ache that memory cannot frame. Once upon a time, we danced through fire, And from the ashes, grew both loss and desire.