Was it another universe? <br />So many years ago. <br />My life with you was interspersed, <br />By affairs you did not know. <br />I kept my guilty secrets, <br />Pressed to a heaving chest; <br />But now that I have been found out, <br />The truth must be confessed! <br /> <br />Was it another lifetime; <br />On a set built yesterday? <br />You wrote it out in pantomime, <br />A role I could not play. <br />Was it the season of bad dreams, <br />Acted out in floods of rage? <br />When treason was a national theme, <br />And blood would stain the page. <br /> <br />Was it a nerveless universe, <br />Uncurved by mystery? <br />When rational thought was not perverse, <br />But served as history. <br />Was it some other century? <br />For it seems another age, <br />Where reason was a cultural meme, <br />And rhyme, the higher stage. <br /> <br />Was it another universe, <br />On a different plane? <br />Where all exists in reverse, <br />From death to born again. <br />Was it that special universe, <br />Dim lit by avid brain? <br />Where even light cannot traverse, <br />And night and darkness reign. <br /> <br />Was it another epoch? <br />Was it another time? <br />My love for you was built on rock, <br />And not on silt and slime! <br />Was it some other era; <br />In another place? <br />Were we those star-crossed lovers, <br />Somehow lost in outer space? <br /> <br />Was it another universe? <br />Down the blackest of black holes. <br />Does my remorse exert a force, <br />Inverse to troubled souls? <br />Should I spurn the fleeting moment, <br />For a lifetime of control; <br />Or burn in fiery torment, <br />As your anger takes it's toll?<br /><br />Dave SmithWhite<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/black-holes-6/
